Line

__Line __ *A **line** is a moving dot. It is the recording, the history of a movement using a marking device. Therefore, A line is the history of a movement, a gesture, an observation, a visual communication and even an expression. *A **line** makes a letter or a character as in Chinese painting or calligraphy. *A **line** is the first element of art, maybe the most important element of art. ***Lines** do not exist in nature. They are instead the edges of two shapes coming totgether. *A **line** has qualities and characteristics. Thick, thin, light, dark, fast, slow, they direct, They point, the divide, they surround and they can be implied. They conveyemotion and mood. They can be graceful and they can offer grace. They can be manipulative. Matisse

*A **line** is a moving dot. It is the recording, the history of a movement using a marking device. Therefore, A line is the history of a movement, a gesture, an observation, a visual communication and even an expression. *A **line** makes a letter or a character as in Chinese painting or calligraphy. *A **line** is the first element of art, maybe the most important element of art. ***Lines** do not exist in nature. They are instead the edges of two shapes coming totgether. *A **line** has qualities and characteristics. Thick, thin, light, dark, fast, slow, they direct, They point, the divide, they surround and they can be implied. They conveyemotion and mood. They can be graceful and they can offer grace. They can be manipulative.



Line Lesson

Key concept – Exploring line

Objective: SW

a) learn to identify a line ’ s character and qualities b) learn definition of line c) formal and informal ways to draw lines through drawing exercises.



**Key Concept** – Quality of line

Objective - SW a) explore the qualities and variety of line through drawing them

Procedure 1 a) review line, Definition -qualities b) descriptive words to describe lines c) draw an objects contour (shell), add contour lines, trace drawing using as many Variety/contrast lines as you can create around the object. at some point just draw freely d) on the back of the drawing list you lines.

Materials – 12x, pencils

Artists – Matisse, my drawing

Evaluation - a) quality of lines b) depth of creation c) finish in one session

Picasso drawing, notice size of figures. This was a style of art Picasso was drawn to and would later let these figures fragment into Cubism. The style was a Ruebensque style of drawing very round people.

Hat - example of contour line

Portrait using water soluble pen and a brush