3rd Grade- Abstract Line Drawings

All of the grades spent the first few weeks of school learning about lines. In third grade, we focused on horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. We spent some time reviewing types of lines the first day and then talked about horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. For this project, we talked alot about abstract art. Abstract art is art that doesn't really have a subject. I told the classes that they will be making abstract art using just the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines we talked about in class. We did the first part step by step as a class.

The first step was to use a ruler to add horizontal lines to their papers. They could put the lines anywhere they wanted and could put as many or as little as they wanted.

The next steps were to add vertical lines, and then diagonal lines the same way they added the horizontal lines.

The next day, we started adding color. The first step was to fill up half of the shapes with  solid color. The kids were starting to wonder what the final product would look like.

The next was to fill up another half of the shapes with repeating horizontal, diagonal, and vertical lines. When the kids started filling in more shapes, they became very excited with how the project was turning out.

They turned out super cool and mosaic like!