Line Drawing: Graphic Squares

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Here is another take on my Line Drawing Series. These graphic illustrations are perfect for fourth grade when many children love to doodle. Instead of leaving the pictures black and white, you can take it a step further and either color in with marker or add watercolor paints. Drawing a Grid It doesn’t really matter [...]

Line Drawing Art Lessons: Name Designs

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Here is another popular line drawing art lesson that I do with my fourth grade students. It’s a play on their name. This lesson teaches how to make block letters and to think a bit outside the box. Again, like other the other line drawings in earlier posts, I tend to start the year off [...]

Line Drawing Art Lessons: Owls and Cats

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In keeping with my theme for line drawings, I’m posting a few of my samples that I have done with my students over the years. I don’t like to show “teacher samples” as I don’t feel that helps you much with your expectations, but I’m making an exception here. Hopefully, you’ll get inspired to try [...]

Line Drawing Art Lessons:Turtles

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Line drawings are a super easy way to start off your art curriculum. I usually do some type of line drawing with all my grade levels at the beginning of the year. Not only is the set-up simple and there is virtually no clean-up, but it gives me a chance to get to get to [...]

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“Painted Ladies” : Drawing Victorian Homes

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Drawing detailed architecture can be difficult for any age but for elementary students, it can be daunting. These beautiful Victorian homes were created by fifth grade students. We decided to start the drawing in pencil and work to add finishing details with a black marker. It’s one of the few art projects that begins with [...]

Wild and Wacky Hair Line Drawings

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I like to start the kids off each year with a line drawing warm-up. The sixth graders seem to enjoy this one in particular. We start by drawing a large “U” on a piece of white paper and follow with strategies for drawing hair–but not just regular hair–hair using shapes. I talk about the difference [...]