I hate that I am constantly amazed by the Anthropologie window displays.

 

I was walking by Anthropologie in Harvard Square the other night and Oh My! The current windows look so much like the Sol Lewitt follow the line lessons I did as well as Christie at Fine Lines and Shine Brite Zamorano. The lines are constructed out of colored threads.

The picture doesn't really do it justice, I snapped a quick photo as I ran into a movie. 

I just had to share though! and go check out the window at your nearest Anthropologie.

I have been absolutely positively absent from my dear blog lately. 

It's been a busy summer and I'm in the middle of starting a new teaching position- more to come soon!

advanced version of Sol Lewitt continuous line lesson

I led an adapted version of the continuous line lesson I did based on Sol Lewitt's wall drawings a little while back. This one was for a small group of students in an afterschool painting class. 

Each student drew a line in crayon touch two sides on four square papers (6x6).

Then painted contour lines to practice our paintbrush and watercolor control.

We made large backgrounds...

then put them all together!

Also check out Christie's version of bold lines on Fine Lines!

Sol Lewitt Painting Installation

 I introduced my third graders to the many works and many giant installations of Sol Lewitt.  What is so fantastic is if you have access to the internet you can show the students loads of time-lapse videos of the wall paintings being constructed! (My link goes to the Mass MOCA website but google it and you will find many more.)

The colors, lines, shapes, overlapping effects are all so wonderful for the students to make connections to and VTS exercises worked great with some of his wall painting examples.  

The project I am about to install began with each student drawing a line that touched two side of the paper, draw a parallel one to it and then fill it in with red crayon.  

The next class we used tempera cakes (red, blue, green, yellow) to paint concentric and contour lines.  

We will be installing them all up on the wall and connecting the red lines so as to create one giant piece where the red line travels through.  Stay tuned for more photos!