Take a Line for a Walk

In partnership with AccessSFUSD

These paintings, created over two sessions, began as a large-scale group drawing illustrating the idea of “taking a line for a walk.” Students chose a piece of charcoal or a china marker and walked as a group around tables covered with large sheets of brown kraft paper. Participants drew to music as they walked, creating meandering, swirling lines as they went. Later, participants were given window mats to decide on an area of the large scale drawing to crop and trace. After cutting these out, they completed their composition by filling in the drawn shapes with tempera paint in bright colors like blue, red, orange and purple. The final paintings show a layering of movement and vibration. The winding lines of the collaborative drawing outline vibrant areas of paint, enhanced by the neutral brown paper underneath. Created in partnership with teaching artist Raphael Noz.

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