line challenge.

The Rock of Montmajour by Van Gogh

The challenge: Apply what you've learned about lines and create a piece of art using only lines and dots.
 You can do your own thing, or if you need more direction, you can follow what we did.

At first I gave my daughter the challenge like stated above. She had a very hard time with it. She tried to do it by drawing the outline of a flower with a dotted line, but she got frustrated when it didn't look perfect. So the next day I pulled out my book on Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at the drawings and paintings, and I asked her to point out where she saw lines and to look at how he painted or drew with just lines. His ability to draw and paint with just lines is incredible! After looking at the examples, she understood.

Cypress Trees by Van Gogh

Olive Trees by Van Gogh

our project.

We decided to draw some trees at our favorite park. I thought that the Van Gogh style would capture the movement of the spanish moss in the wind. We used oil pastels on black paper. It was hard for Elinor to draw with only lines so expect this to take some mental dedication. I included close ups from my drawing to see how I layered lines of oil pastel to create the look.