ORGANIC/FREE FORM SHAPES vs. GEOMETRIC (K-2)
Creating our own Organic Shapes inspired by Nature
Children designed their shape on heavy weight paper.They then cut the shape out and used it for tracing on watercolor paper. They experimented with OVERLAPPING and ROTATING their shape before it was traced. Once the drawing was balanced, the final step was adding color with Watercolor.
ORGANIC: shapes, often curvilinear in appearance, that are similar to those found in nature, such as plants, animals, and rocks. GEOMETRIC: any shapes and based on math principles, such as a square, circle, and triangle.
Some examples of organic shapes include leaves, clouds, and mountains. A leaf is considered an organic shape, and it has defined lines, though it is not geometric or mathematical. It could be drawn in any number of ways and would still be an organic shape of a leaf.
