4th & 5th grade students at IAA take violin lessons as part of our One Strings program. To kick off their year of playing stringed instruments, 5th grade students did observational drawings of several different instruments using charcoal. Their goal was to create a dynamic composition and to use line as well as light, medium, and dark values. Compositional choices students made include zooming in on one part of the instrument, cropping the image to create visual interest, and placing the instrument off center to draw the viewer in.
Ada Leaphart, Visual Art Specialist at the Integrated Arts Academy