Art I students have been studying line drawings — blind contour, gesture, contour line drawings. They also experimented with different types of mediums in their sketchbooks such as pastel and watercolor. As a sort of finale to our study of line, students created line drawings and added color with either a watercolor wash or soft pastels. They then traced back over their drawing with black ink. The results were really eye-catching. Here’s a sampling.
How many of us really look, anyway, I wonder? I remember when my 16 yr-old was very small, and I would see beautiful cloud formations, or a sunset, and I would always get him to look. I just thought it was important. Or perhaps it’s that we look and don’t see? During the first two or so weeks of school, we have been doing blind contour line drawings to begin class — to focus and warm up. I tell my students how we have to learn to draw what we see, not what we think we see. Basic. Browsing Pinterest, I found this really nice continuous line drawing by Kris Trappeniers. So, a good example of what you can do with continuous line.
