Ryan B4 Blind Contour Drawing

Here is Ms. Ryan's blind contour drawing!

Just a reminder a blind contour drawing is a type of drawing where you do NOT look at your paper. You focus on the object you are drawing. In this case it was our other classmates. We created portraits with out lifting our pencil and with out looking!

A lot of the time you can see all the different parts- they're not just in the right place!

They're cool Piccasso-esque drawings! 

They are nice because it's fun and they don't have to worry about being "right."

Ryan A4 Blind Contour Drawings

Students are practicing DRAWING without looking at their paper. This means that they are focusing on their subject.

It makes for lots of giggles, but really interesting abstracted art! 

Blind Contour Drawing Czaplicki B3

Students work on developing focus skills and trying to draw with out looking at their paper.

They are drawing portraits of the their neighbors!

What a challenge- but what cool results???

Czaplicki 6th Grade Art 10/2/201

Ms Czaplicki's 6th graders these past two days got to pratice blind contour drawing for their sketchbook. This is an exercise to get students to LOOK at what the subject they are drawing, not at their drawing, Looking at our subject ensures that we draw what we see, not what we THINK it looks like.

Then we began to build our armatures for our masks that we will be making based off of a fear that we have. We spent last class discussing fear. We asked some questions with not so simple answers: Is fear a good or bad thing? Why? Do different cultures have different fears? Why? How do we react when we will fear? What are common fear? Why do we think those are common fears?

We worked in teams of two! Two heads are better then one!

I am really excited to see how they turn out. Their brainstorming sketches look awesome!