Introduction


What If There Wasn't Any Color in the World?

What if everyone in your class only wore white clothes to school? What if your notebooks, your backpacks, pictures in your house, and your video games were all white? It would probably be a really boring world wouldn't it?

white shirts in a closet

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Colors and Lines

When you write your name or draw on a piece of paper, you are using lines. Designs on clothes, notebooks, backpacks and pictures in your house consist of lines. The line is the basis for drawing anything, and it is an essential building block for design and communication.

colorful clothes and desk

Without different kinds of lines we wouldn't have anything to look at or enjoy. In order to enjoy looking at the things around you, it is important to learn about different kinds of lines and how they are used to express the way we feel.

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Identify and draw different types of lines
  • Describe how different artists use lines to communicate ideas and express feeling in their works of art
  • Draw different types of lines

Enduring Understandings

  • Through their use of elements and structures of their art form, artists and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
  • Artists and designers experiment with forms, structures, materials, concepts, media, and art-making approaches.
  • Artists' interpretations of their work are influenced by personal experiences and aesthetics.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Elements of Arts Literacy standards: 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8.

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