Students should hold their mirrors or set them flat on the table and look only at their image while they draw their face without lifting the pencil off the paper.When the students are finished, they can take a piece of watercolor paper, two pieces of masking tape, and a mirror from the front table.Remind them to draw in their knuckles, rings, etc. Guided Practice: Have the students hold up their hand, take their pencil in the other and have them look only at their hand while they draw what it looks like, without looking at the paper or lifting their pencil off the page.Notice how the wire starts at the chin and continuously winds around the shape of the face including the ears to the bottom of the chin. The artist, Alexander Calder, created Contour Line drawings of faces and circus animals using pen and paper and also wire. They are created by looking only at the subject and not the paper while drawing.Blind Contour Drawings are created with one line never picking the pencil up off the page.Straight lines look flat but curved lines give more dimension. Contour Lines can make an object look 3-D as on the following slide of the Contour Map.(Follow slides below – all slides are in the power point) Today we’ll discuss Contour Lines and how they can make art work look more interesting and realistic.“A line is a dot, that went for a walk” from Paul Klee. Explain how Line is the most basic element of drawing, basically a moving dot. Ask students examples of Line in art they know: prompt cartoons, stick drawings, etc.
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