DRAWING WITH THE FIVE KINDS OF LINES

After finishing our unit on Caveman art, I introduced them to line, the first of our seven elements of art.  They learned that there are five kinds of lines, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, curved and zigzag.  Then my students were asked to create an original drawing using all these lines.  They also had to use a straightedge when drawing the straight lines.  After the pencil drawing was complete they had to trace over all lines with colored markers.  But all vertical lines were done in one color, all horizontal lines in another color and so on.  Finally they made a key at the bottom telling me their color choice for each kind of line.  This simple looking exercise allowed me to know if they knew how to recognize and draw the lines.