Art

This term all the students have begun the term by studying the element of Line. Line is the foundation of all drawing. It is the first and most versatile of the visual elements. Line in visual arts can be used in many different ways and often define the edges of a form. Line can be used to suggest shape, pattern, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, rhythm, movement and a range of emotions. There are many different types of lines including vertical, horizontal, curved, curly, spiral and jagged. 

Artists use line in very different ways. Line can express mood, control, and direction and can be thick, thin, bold, and faint.

“A line is a dot that went for a walk” – Paul Klee

The Grade 5 and 6 students were exploring neurographic art which is a therapeutic, mindful art form developed in 2014 by Russian psychologist Pavel Piskarev that blends psychology with creativity to reduce stress and stimulate new neural pathways. It involves drawing free-flowing, intuitive lines that resemble neural networks and rounding all intersecting sharp corners to "smooth" mental stress. 

With a permanent marker the students drew freely for a few seconds letting them marker wander across the paper. Where all lines intersected the sharp corners were smoothed out, other lines were also drawn if required to balance the art. Colour was added using water colour pencils in some enclosed sections, lines and patterns were drawn with black permanent marker.