For week three students will be doing an upside-down drawing. The concept is about training our brains to see the image solely as a group of lines and shapes. It also relates back to OiLs and the ability to describe and duplicate lines.
It is so, so, SO important to teach students to look at the object in front of them as they draw, and to study the lines that create that object. People tend to draw the object they see in their mind rather than what they see in front of them. For example, if asked to draw an apple on a table, many people would look at the apple once, then keep their head down and draw what they think a typical apple would look like. We want students to constantly look back at the object and draw the nuances of the lines and curves- simply as a series of lines and curves, not an apple.
The lesson below relates to geography for the week. The Book of Kells is a medieval illuminated manuscript created by monks in Ireland around 800 AD. It is a great way to connect art to history to geography. Continue Reading →