Blind Contour, Modified contour, right brain drawing and expressive mark making
Many of the students in my intro classes hadn’t had any art in middle school, so they were sometimes functioning at a 5th grade level in terms of their drawing ability. In order to meet them where they were, I had them do a drawing bootcamp to get their engines running again.
Blind contour
modified contour
“right brain” or upside down drawing
Picasso’s drawing of Igor Stravinsky: a classic staple of art education.
Student example
expressive mark making
Students chose an object and experimented with mark making using scribble lines, lines in one direction, lines in all directions, zig zag and another using all of them.
