Working their way toward a somewhat abstract geometric painting, the middle school students began with a couple of drawing exercises to help them begin to draw what is actually in front of them. Picking from a series of numbered paper bags with objects in them, they have to put one hand in the bag and with the other hand draw precisely what they feel. No generic renditions of the object, but that precise thing with all its bumps and curves or what have you. After these objects are blindly drawn from feeling, in the next class they are drawn again while carefully observing them, hopefully capturing more detail than would have been possible before the blind drawings. These exercises improves eye hand coordination. The students have to evaluate and interpret visual information as they draw each line.
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| Hand in bag drawing |
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