Wire Art

The seventh grade unit on continuous contour drawing (drawing using only one line), was wrapped up this week with a wire project. Students easily grasped the similarities: "Wire's like line, only 3D," they said.

For this project, students were able to create anything they wanted out of wire. They had to figure out how to plan (usually with a drawn outline), manipulate, and structure their project on their own, or with a partner.

I asked the two girls who created the below wire guitar to write about what they learned from this project. They wrote: "Having an outline [for our wire project] really helped. We made a guitar because we both wanted to incorporate music into our wire project. Using wire made contour drawing easier and make more sense, because wire makes you think about how your lines really connect."

Wire guitar!

Wire flute!

 

Wire snake!

 

 

 Wire snake close up!