At least I have a few projects under my belt and pix to share! My fourth graders started out with a unit on line and Zentangles seemed like a good fit...
I developed a presentation featuring zentangles created by many different artists found online. Afterwards, my students did a guided practice with me using pencil on a strip of 2" x 12" folded into 4th's. We did 3 designs together and they filled the remaining spaces with original ideas or referred to a handout for ideas...
The final work was done with black fine line marker on a 6" sq. white paper. We folded the square into 4th's and corners to corners to create 8 triangular spaces. Students also used a white colored pencil on a black letter (their first initial) that was glued to the front of their zentangles...
I wanted the finished work to show the 4 kinds of line we reviewed (straight, curve, angle and broken), unique and varied patterns that also showed evidence of different light and dark values...
I wasn't crazy about the white pencil on black paper - was hoping for greater contrast. I think white gel pens might have worked better - what do you suggest?
Beautiful compositions.
ReplyDeleteTalented students.