Art: Space and Line

In many ways this is a catch up unit Josh. So far his art has missed the instruction that the older two have had. For a long time I hoped that he would naturally start to see shape in his drawings, but he hasn't.

• Day 1 Space - horizontal and vertical space.
  
  How can you tell which way you want the paper to go. How do you choose the shape of your picture.
  
  Warm up: Because I want to work on shape and line as well I'm going to use some of the warm ups from Donna Young's website.
  
  We'll look at the two examples given in Artistic pursuits gr 4-6 lesson 1 as a start and discuss. Select two objects to draw and using a pencil quickly sketch them so that they make the best use of your two pieces of paper.

• Day 2 Line & Shape
  
  Warm up: As per yesterday.
  
  Look at how all objects are made up from connecting lines and shapes. When the lines join up we have a shape. In teaching I'll jump of the Artistic Pursuits book unit 2. Then I'll get them to look for lines and shapes in an outside scene - probably the Cherry tree outside the living room windows and draw it.
  

• Day 3 Line and Shape Continued.
  
  Warm up as per yesterday.
  
  Review what we did the previous day. Look at thier drawings and discuss as a group where they made good use of shape and line. Then still looking at line and shape in Artistic Pursuits talk about how the direction of the lines give a sense of form as well as shape. Talk also about times where we can see through what we are drawing to more lines, or shapes beyond it. I.e. the trees beyond our Cherry tree, or wheels on a cannon.
  We have a small grey pumpkin sitting on the bench that I'm going to use for drawing practice. It gives a good sense of where an object has lines that we have to draw as curves to give it its true shape. For the older kids I'll add in a couple of other items for a small still life.
  
  
• No Day 4 - We've had Queens birthday weekend so Monday was a holiday.