Exploring Line Project #1: Simple Flowers

Here's a really simple project for those of you who think you can't draw.

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Instructions

Choose a piece of colored paper to start drawing on. Using a black Sharpie, make a dot.
Make another dot a little bit below the first dot. Connect the dots to make a line.
Starting at the bottom dot, make a curved line that goes up and away from the dot. End the line with another dot.
Now go back to the bottom dot and make another curved line that curves up and away in the opposite direction. End this line with a dot.
Make a bunch more of these curving lines, ending in dots. Now you have a flower blossom.
Cut out the blossom, just cutting around it in a general way.
Make a bunch of these blossoms in your different paper colors.
On a sheet of brown kraft paper, arrange your blossoms in the top half of the page. When you have an arrangement you like, glue them down with a glue stick.
Draw a vertical line from the bottom dot of each blossom, down to the bottom of the page. These are your stems. If a blossom overlaps a stem drawn next to it, just jump over the blossom, and continue the stem down to the bottom of the page.
Make blades of grass like this: Press down hard with the point of the Sharpie on the bottom of the page, then flick your hand up quickly. Make a bunch of grass blades between the flowers. Also, draw a tight zig-zag line along the bottom of the page to make a baseline.
You've just drawn a picture of some flowers! Good for you!