Primary Lesson 1: Lines
Scribbles and so much more!
What You'll Learn in These Lessons
The Artsense PRIMARY ART BASICS SERIES is an online, sequential video program that teaches the ELEMENTS OF ART: LINE, SHAPE, SPACE, COLOR, TEXTURE and FORM. Included in the lessons are important principles of design that connect the elements of art. Four ten-minute, instructional videos teach important art concepts, and are supported by easy-to-follow INDIVIDUAL LESSON PLANS. These offer art vocabulary, fine art examples, plus examples in the natural and man-made environments. Every lesson includes ideas for art-integrated projects and exciting cross-curricula activities.
The program is designed to teach, excite, and inspire students to discover, understand, create and appreciate art everywhere they look, and to create their own original artworks.
Introducing The Art Element: LINE
What is there to learn about lines? Did you know that ART is older than the written word? Ancient people first drew the world around them with lines, long before they used words. In these lessons, you will meet the nine basic lines. We can draw everything with lines. We see them everywhere! Come along and experience these versatile LINES! They keep very busy making shapes and patterns. Only "dot" says that she is a line is not going anywhere.
Projects
In this course, we build on images that are familiar, like faces, animals and nature. The exciting projects are designed to inspire individual and group creativity.
Experience LINES and discover other art elements in this lesson with a 10-minute video and easy-to-follow projects.
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- SCRIBBLE FACES: Discover the elements of LINE, TEXTURE and COLOR, and the principles of pattern, repetition, variety and emphasis. Students creatively draw a face with scribbles—a “guaranteed success” project. Everyone can scribble!
- SCRIBBLE ANIMALS: This project reinforces the elements of LINE, TEXTURE, COLOR and the principles of repetition, pattern, unity, variety, emphasis, and proportion in simple creative “scribbles” of animal subjects.
- CRAYON RESIST: Reinforce the elements of LINE, SHAPE, COLOR and TEXTURE. When lines meet and cross, they create shapes. Texture, in crayon resist is created with the waxy lines of crayon on paper. The crayon lines “resist” the application of liquid watercolor shapes in the design.
- MURAL CITY: To encourage the creative use of LINE in a group activity that produces A MURAL--a unified work of art created with a variety of LINES and SHAPES.
BOOK ART PROJECTS:
- READ & WRITE ART PROJECT: Scribble Faces: Inspired by the illustrations in Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, students read the book, write their own versions of a good or bad day and illustrate their self-portraits with lines.
- READ & WRITE ART PROJECT: Scribble Characters: Inspired by the illustrations in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, students read the book and write original versions of CHARACTERS in dreams or nightmares and illustrate with a variety of lines that show different types of visual texture.