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Elements of art unit – Line
Concept – LINE, Contour &Gesture Drawing
Objective: exploring line
Contour
Students will:
1) Examine objects through line using the process
of blind contour & modified, continuous line,
and contour line respectively.
2) Recognize line quality, characteristics, value
and expression.
3) Definition - arrive at a definition from the
above.
4) Draw simple to hard objects in each style. Cup
to shell to lemon to sunflower.
Gesture
Students will:
1) Examine objects through line using the process
of gesture drawing by turning a shape, 2D into
a form, 3D.
2) Recognize line quality, characteristics and
expression.
3) Definition
Procedure: for contour and gesture
a) Demo technique of drawing including line
quality. Explain pencil grades, H to B.
b) Do timed drawings in both styles. 60 sec, 30
sec, 15 sec
c) Produce contour drawings in pencil, (pen and
crayon?)
d) Produce drawing exhibiting expressive line
quality.
e) Produce drawings dealing with the value quality
of a line.
f) Produce line drawing in ink with brush
Artists: Matisse, Morandi, and Giacometti
Materials: 9x12 white paper, pencils, ink, brushes,
watercolour
Assessment:
a) Guide critique: What constitutes a line?
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What does it do? What can it do?
What makes the line drawing interesting?
Compare the drawings of Matisse Morandi and
Giacometti. What do you find is at their core?
What makes the line work?
b) Discuss and evaluate line quality and
characteristic.
c) Define what the line is doing.
d) Establish a vocabulary of lines.
e) Establish a difference between a wet line
(brush) and a dry line. (Pencil)
Line
Definition of a line a line is a moving dot or the
recorded history of a mark.
Lines have characteristics and qualities. Examples
– thick/ thin, light /dark, fast/slow, wavy, curvy,
straight, directional, dotted or dashed on so on.
There are no lines in nature. For a very realistic
drawing you would eliminate all the lines.
A line can be implied by to shapes touching each
other.
Project
Line Drawings of Flowers using Expressive Gestural
Line
Objective: Exploring line
Students will:
a) Produce a finished line drawing using
contour concepts (shape) from observation
using continuous and contour line.
b) Produce a crayon drawing using expressive
line in varying color.
c) Finishing will be watercolour or wet line
to create a resist.
Procedure and materials:
a) 11x16 paper white paper, crayons, watercolor
b) Demo and draw ((practice thumbnails?)
c) Finished drawing in resist.
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Artist: Paul Cezanne
Assessment:
a) Tie into objectives\
b) Walk around
c) Finished drawings used above concepts?
d) Principles - contrast, focal point and
movement.
e) Elements - line, shape, color, and texture.
f) Critique - What is the line describing? How is
this happening?
What were you thinking as you drew?
How were the colors affecting you since only
working in B/W?
What has been learned?
Line
A still life is a composition or arrangement of inanimate
objects that could easily be carried in ones arms. At on time
still life painting included the spoils of a hunt, small foul,
small mammals and fish. A still life was a recording of
ones stuff! It was also away to show off ones stuff to ones
friends or enemies.