Shell and Bone Drawings
Foundations of Art

Medium – watercolor, wax crayons, marker

Process:
A contour drawing is another name for drawing the outline. With contour, the focus is on the edges, the outside of an object or the line made by a fold or pattern.

Students were given a shell or bone and asked to do a large-scale contour drawing on white paper. That drawing was then crossed with straight or curved lines, creating shapes within the contour as well as the background. The lines and shapes were filled with color and pattern creating a very imaginative approach to contour drawing,