Both 6th and 7th grade learned about contour line drawing last week. We opened the lesson by an exercise of placing shoes in a time line. I gave the students 12 shoes, ranging from 400 BC all the way to the 2000S and had them place them in the order in which they thought the shoes were made. It was a lot of fun seeing how the student's worked together to figure it out.
Next, we talked about how artist used to record things like shoes and style of clothing and architecture in their paintings and drawings. We then moved on to recording our own shoes, in contour line. We then added fun details like their names in the shoe laces and bright colors.
