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Fifth graders are reading My Side of the Mountain by naturalist Jean Craighead George, so we have been working on sensitive line and contour line through observational drawings. We looked at examples of historical and contemporary naturalist drawings in class and students first made contour line drawings from life in the garden of plants of their choosing with careful fidelity the forms observed. Next, they closely examined helicopter seed pods, some from several views, and made sensitive line drawings which they then painted in watercolor.
