Blind Contour Spring Drawing

This lesson incorporated different geometric symbols and used color in a local stereotypic way. This lesson was for a 1^st grade classroom but could be used for 2^nd or 3^rd. I was never aware of blind drawing until this lesson but learned that it is when an artist draws a subject without looking at the paper. In this lesson they used warm and cool colors to create a painting over their drawing of a spring scene with a white crayon. The drawing showed up because it was drawn with a white crayon. An extension of this activity could include integrating this drawing with a science lesson when learning about the four different seasons. A teacher would assign each student a different season and they would have to draw a scene that would look like the season they were assigned. The students would have to include something that makes the scene look like their season and the colors of that season.