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.

Art From Home

Below is a selection of art students made at home (and brought in to show me) during this semester. Enjoy!

6th grade robots made from electronics parts.

7th grade wire flute.

8th grade ice sculptures.

7th grade silhouettes (cut paper and watercolor).

7th grade silhouettes close-up (cut paper and watercolor).



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!