Your Turn!

Deborah says to try this in the classroom, at home, or in the boardroom: Get a group together and draw the following all on one page:

1. Draw a fast line.

2. Draw a bumpy line.

3. Make a line that is broken into pieces.

4. Draw a jagged line.

5. Draw dark and light. Draw big and little dots.

6. Hold your pencil on the very top and draw feathery marks.

7. Close your eyes and draw large circles.

8. Use the edge of your pencil, not the tip, and make short dashes.

9. Put your pencil in the less-dominant hand and take your pencil for a walk around your entire page.

10. Put a drawing tool in each hand and make lines that cross one another.

Now look at all the drawings together. What do you see? They are all different. There is no right way to draw these varied marks. We each have our own way to draw a bumpy line or a fast line. In a classroom this is a way to see each person as an individual in a visual way. It is concrete. “I can never draw a jagged line like you,” she says.