Drawing Lesson

Line Landscapes

Description: This lesson taught about using different kinds of lines as well as what the horizon line is. This is a great project for helping elementary students to learn how to organize their drawings. They are to use the horizon line, about 3 other types of lines (such as zig zags, parallel lines, wavy lines, and curved lines). They also must use an object in their creation, which is great practice for them to learn how to scale objects to fit their surroundings as the boats and shovel are scaled in my drawing. Then students paint over top using water color. I think it would also be appropriate for teachers to have students use colored pencils, which might help them keep the drawing the way they intended.

Extension: Students could next work on scaling. The teacher could use many exemplars for students to see the way that artists change the sizes of objects based on their position in the picture. Students could use a straight horizon line and practice creating a road going off into the distance. They could also practice by placing one bird on the ground nearby and by placing an airplane into the far off distance nearer to the horizon line. The teacher could use Van Gogh's Starry Night for this project by showing how large the tree looks and how relatively small the town looks.