Objective:  To have the children draw a window that fills the paper, using line weight, direction, and style to show a favorite indoor or outdoor place.

Vocabulary:

drawing - A picture made with a pencil, pen, crayon, marker, or pastel.

line - A mark that has length (one-dimension) which begins at one point and continues to another point for a certain distance in a certain direction.  Lines have properties (physical characteristics) and styles (common names).

line direction - The overall way a line moves. Line can move in four directions:  horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and inward or outward.
Horizontal = Side to side
Vertical = Up and down
Diagonal = Slanted
Inward or outward = Spiral

line style - The common names we give to lines, such as straight, angled, zigzag, jagged, curved, curvy, curly, bumpy, wavy, scalloped, spiral, etc...

line weight - The thickness or thinness of a line.

What do you see in Bird Ornament by Alexander Calder and Still-life with Pomegranates by Henri Matisse?  

Lines are everywhere.  Artists use lines.  Can you find thin, thick, diagonal (slanted), curved, and zigzag lines in Bird Ornament and Still-life with Pomegranates?

Recommended Reading

Lines by Philip Yenawine - Delacorte Press, 1991.  In stock:  read-aloud

Studio Time:  From My Window

Materials:

white paper, crayons

Plan

1. Think about your favorite indoor or outdoor place.  Tell a person about your favorite place and the objects or the things that you see at your favorite place.  

2. Check list: 
   - Use lines with different directions:  horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or inward/outward.- Use lines with different weights:  Thick or thin.
   - Use lines with different styles:  straight, angled, zigzag, jagged, curved, curvy, curly, bumpy, wavy, scalloped, spiral, etc...

Create