Drawing from observation

Third graders began to look a little more closely at things today in Art.  They learned about drawing from observation, and tried out two techniques:  Blind Contour and Modified Contour drawing.  Blind Contour is when the artist only looks at his/her subject, and never at the paper.  Modified Contour is when the artist looks at the subject 80% of the time, and his/her paper 20% of the time.