Continuous Line Drawings

Continuous line drawings provide an excellent way to develop hand eye coordination. Continuous line drawings are made by keeping the pen or pencil in contact with the paper, and by matching speed of looking with speed of drawing. It's a bit tricky, but we challenge you to have a go. You can draw any small object at home....

Watch a video explaining how to do it by clicking on the link - Continuous Line Drawings

• Try using a handwriting pen, rather than a pencil. The handwriting pen has less friction against the paper and so the pen can “scoot” easily across the paper as the eye observes.
• Choose small objects as subject matter and have them close at hand so the children can easily observe detail. Keys, cutlery, tools, feathers, and coins all make excellent subject matter.
• Choose how long you will be drawing for.... perhaps 5 mins....use the timer to help!

• Try to make a drawing without taking your pen off the paper for the duration of the exercise. You even try doing a blind drawing and don't look at your paper until you are finished. 

Send your finished pictures to debeauvoirprimary@gmail.com.