Line

1. LINE
“Drawing is simply a line going for a walk”
– Paul Klee

2. Types of Line
Line is straight or
curved, heavy or light,
soft or hard or a
mixture of them all

3. Line can characterize a shape by being the
edge of an area or surface, color, tone, or
pattern – it becomes an outline or
contour.
Line can show MOVEMENT
Line can suggest RHYTHM
Line can create TEXTURAL results
Line can indicate EMOTIONAL effects.

4. Lines can be implied…
Not really there but guides the eye or
organize the image.

5. Note lines
implied by
directional
gazes
Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935, 48x48 in.

6. Morandi, Giorgio
Still Life
(The Blue Vase)
1920
Oil on canvas
The blue
lines point
out . . .
IMPLIED LINES

7. Lines used to create
emphasis
A VENETIAN WOMAN
John Singer Sargent (American,
b.1856, d.1925)
1882
oil on canvas
93 3/4 x 52 1/2 in. (238.1 x 133.4
cm)

8. Lines can curve . . .

9. Hokusai, Katsushika [kah-tsoo-shee-kah]
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” 1823-29
Color woodcut 10 x 15 in.

10. Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970

11. Roy Lichtenstein Brushstroke, 1965
color screenprint on heavy, white wove paper, 58.4 x 73.6 cm (23 x 29 in.)

12. Charles Sheeler Classic Landscape, 1931 oil on canvas, 63.5 x 81.9 cm (25 x
32 1/4 in.)

13. Joan Miró The Farm, 1921–1922 oil on canvas, 123.8 x 141.3 x 3.3 cm
(48 3/4 x 55 5/8 x 1 5/16 in.)

14. Winslow Homer Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), 1873-1876 oil on canvas,
61.5 x 97 cm (24 3/16 x 38 3/16 in.)

15. Fitz Henry Lane Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863 oil on canvas, 62.5
x 96.8 cm (24 5/8 x 38 1/8 in.)

16. Warm up in
sketchbook
Create 12 2x2”
Thumbnails
3 of each type of line
work

18. Zentangles