ENTRY E

Blind Contour Line Drawing

This was a fun exercise because it allowed all of the class to have a good laugh at themselves. I personally would have liked to have been able to see what I was drawing or at least been allowed to lift my pencil, but I suppose that would have defeated the purpose of the exercise.

Process

• We began by removing one of our shoes and placing it on the table in front of us.
• We then placed a piece of drawing paper in a paper bag to prevent us from being able to see what we were drawing.
• With our hand in the bag holding a pencil over the paper we were instructed to draw our shoe with intricate detail. This was to be done without lifting our pencil off of the paper or peeking inside the bag.
• Once we had completed the shoe drawing and had time to re-coop after a laugh, we were asked to draw the face of our neighbor. This of course proved to be equally entertaining.

Integration

This project lends itself well to integration in almost any subject, depending on what you are drawing.

• If the students are learning to write, this could be a very good exercise in motor memory to help them with their penmanship.
• In history, they could have been assigned to recreate the Mayflower without looking to excise building anticipation for the upcoming break.
• This could double as a valuable lesson in the skills that the non-sighted people in our community learn to deal with everyday life.
• In science lessons this project could serve to illustrate the complexity of the structure of proteins... Since that is what all of the art ends up looking like anyhow.
• In terms of mathematics, students may learn to develop their understanding of measurement in future attempts to more accurately draw the subject.