Next destination is France! Today the Battleships learned about Alexander Calder, an artist who worked in both France and New York. Calder is known for his sculptures and mobiles, but today we discussed his line drawings and wire sculptures. Together we looked at images of line drawings from Calder's sketchbook. We traced the lines of his drawings in the air with our fingers, and noticed that lines can be bumpy, zig zaggy, wiggly, straight, curved, thick, thin, fast, slow, jagged and smooth. Our lines can change when we use a lot of ink or a little ink. We also learned that lines look different depending on how we move our arms, wrists and bodies. Each student got two large sheets of newsprint, an ebony pencil, two brushes and a dish of India ink, which they used to explore how many different types of lines they could create. They tried all different techniques and came up with some really nice ink drawings!Comments are closed.
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