Wire Portraits

Following a contour drawing project, and preceding a 3D wire project, students were to make wire portraits. They began by looking in a mirror and drawing their face using only one (contour) line. Later, they stapled wire to the contour pencil lines. This project familiarizes students with the medium of wire, and prepares them to think in 3D. And the results were quite good!

 



 

 

Not made from one line, but still an awesome portrait.

Again, not made from one line, but still very effective.

 

This student chose to do an owl.

"Throw Me to the Wolves..."

A seventh grader brought this in to show me today. I asked her to write a brief paragraph about it so I could put it on the blog. Here's what she said: 

"I saw on Instagram a very inspiring quote: “If you throw me to the wolves, I’ll come back leading the pack.” My family is part Native American. I love my brother dearly and the idea of drawing a contour wolf came up when I thought of his name, “Howling Wolf.”

"I made a kind of contour drawing because we are working on that in art class. The whole wolf was made using mostly only one line. Everything is connected."