REPETITION


    Using repetition to make your work visually interesting

    MATERIALS NEEDED
  • drawing pencil
  • colored markers
  • eraser
  • paper 12x18
  • 5x8 index card
  • ruler
  • scissors


    OBJECTIVES
    Repeat the same shape to make your drawings more interesting

    DIRECTIONS

    STEP 1
    WHAT TO THINK ABOUT BEFORE BEGINNING

    We like repetition because it adds order to our lives. We hear and enjoy repetition in music, in our gardens, and in the wallpaper on our walls. We see a lack of repetition as disorderly. Artists such as Wayne Thiebaud use repetition to create a sense of harmony and pattern. You are going to create an image with a repeated figure.

    STEP 2
    Look around the room and find an interesting object. It might be a bottle, bowl, paintbrush, box of markers or some other object with an interesting shape. Draw this image on an index card.

    STEP 3
    Cut out the figure from the card, and use this as a template.

    STEP 4
    Place your template on your 12 x 18 paper and draw around it. Move to another location and draw around it again. You may overlap the figures, leaving the entire outlines or erasing some of the lines, to create a sense of overlapping objects

    STEP 5
    Add detail and color to your objects.

    RESOURCES
    Look at other sites to see how other artists have used repetition in their work.

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