My daughter, Jillian, is an amazing artist. She is constantly sketching and drawing, creating with polymer clay or origami-ish paper sculptures. It has ben a pleasure to see her explore different media in her art class elective in this first year of high school. Not many of the projects make there way home as the class collection fills every bit of wall space in the school studio, so I was so giddy when she shared a little tidbit with me recently.
The challenge was to create a face as a contour line drawing, meaning drawn from one continuous line, trying not to trace back over any parts. My immediate reaction was, "Oh! This is beautiful!" I followed the line in awe; I studied the brilliance of the abstract suggestion of hair, the use of negative space. I pulled back my gaze to take in the piece as a whole again, and was struck with the realization, "Oh! This is YOU!"
"Yeah," she said with a soft chuckle. Then she explained that the drawing was just Part 1 of the project. Once the students created a contour line drawing of their visage, they were given a length of copper wire to bend and curve following the lines they'd drawn.
This is part of the collection now hanging in the front lobby of the school. I loved looking at all the different faces, seeing where each person decided to start and end their sculpture. Here's a closer look at my beautiful girl!
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