An Obsession With Line

Year 1JH students have been exploring  line to create patterns, shape and form while also developing their spatial positioning in their drawings.
We began with reviewing what we knew about lines, drawings as many different lines and then painting the areas in and around our lines. Check the flip book Mrs Hiskens made of our line paintings.  Here is the link to view it in full http://snack.to/fz9f2c9t

Below is a sneak peek



We then progressed into exploring the contour lines (outlines) of objects and how they helped us see the shape of the object. In this case we used toy animals as our objects. We tried tracing them and drawing them from just looking at them. Mrs Hiskens then told us a funny story about some crazy farm animals.

Can you guess the story?

So we drew our own animal stack, trying to position and draw our animals so that our work used up the whole page.  We talked about our animal shapes and discussed the similarities in some animals and their special features.

 

 

 

 


This week Mrs Hiskens surprised us all with a special project influenced by the work of Keith Haring. We are now going to use what we have learnt about our animal shapes and lines to design our own plushie!
Here is the work of Keith Haring  that we looked at.

This one reminded us of a maze, Aboriginal paintings and an x- ray

 
We loved how he used outline to draw simple forms and how he has used lines to create patterns and show movement.


Here are some of our plans for our Keith Haring inspired plushies. Mrs Hiskens photocopied our work and then cut them out to use as templates on our fabric.

 

 






Keep an eye on this space so see our finished work.