Saturday, December 10, 2011

Who's Shoe?













Fifth graders created line drawings of their shoe.  They worked on blind contour and contour studies in their sketchbooks as a warm-up.  The students first drew their shoe in pencil and then traced over in Sharpie.  We discussed the use of pen and ink techniques such as hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling to add value to areas of their drawing.  The students wanted to add color to their shoe, but I didn't want that to interfere with their drawing.  I saw on another art blog where students had created rubbings from the bottom of their shoe and thought this was a perfect way for my students to add color to their work.  I think the results were great!

5 comments:

  1. I love the idea of the rubbings for background!!

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  2. Ditto to Fine Lines! I've done shoe rubbings and shoe contours but never thought to put them together. Great idea; I may steal it!

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  3. By all means....I just wish I could give credit to the teacher who gave ME the idea :-)

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  4. Love the texture rubbing background- provides the perfect contrast to the line drawings. Great job by your students!

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  5. These contour shoes came out great! Wow, they look like middle school work! Nicely done!

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