Doodle Art

In my Red 2 class we have started doodle art this week. We found an image in a magazine that would have a good silhouette. I choose a flower in a bottle. We laid it down on our paper and then using a highlighter we traced around the image. We then covered the rest of the page with the highlighter. I used a yellow highlighter. The kids had the choice of leaving their picture they had traced around as a pencil drawing, a colored pencil drawing, or using colored pens to draw it. I used a combination of the three. We then started "doodling" on our paper until we had filled the page. We made sure that we left a fine line of the highlighted area to show through from the background. My paper started reminding me of the art work I did in the 60's and 70's so I titled mine "Flower Power 70's". This is a fun project that the kids are really getting into. So far I have seen them using pictures of guitars, cars, shoes, a camera, etc.