May 4 - 8

Overlapping Shapes

For this project you will be learning about shape, line and color. But the specific focus will be on shape.

SHAPE - an element of art that is a two-dimensional area that is defined in some way. A shape may have an outline around it or you may recognize it by its area. Shapes can be organic - curvy, flowing and representing natural things, or geometric like triangles, squares, circles, etc.

Some examples of shape below:

What you will need:

Paper (blank white please)
Pencil
Markers, or colored pencils, watercolor paint, crayons - anything that can color

Here's what you will do:

Draw a variety of overlapping shapes in pencil, overlapping means that they have to cross over each other. Try to make it interesting to look at.
Outline the shapes in black.
Fill in the shapes with a variety of colors.
Any two shapes that are next to each other can't be the same color.
Where shapes intersect, there should be a different color. Try to imagine what the combination of those two intersecting colors might make. If yellow and blue intersect, they would make green. It's ok to make the intersections different colors. Meaning yellow and blue don't have to make green, you could have orange there if you want.
Add MANY shapes to your drawing (at least 10) and FILL the entire space.
Every shape has to be filled with color.
It's ok if your shapes look like things, and it's ok if they are just "shapes"
Please go for variety, That means different types of shapes and colors.

Here's what my example looked like before I started adding color.

Notice that I have a lot of different shapes overlapping one another. Some may be recognizable, others are just random shapes. You can see that I started in pencil, then used a colored pencil to outline in black. You can use markers, paint, sharpies, colored pencils or crayons. Anything with color.

Notice I added yellow and blue to two shapes, and where they intersect I added green, the color yellow and blue make when combined. You don't have to do this, but you can if you want. As long as the intersection is a different color than the two next to it.