Digital Education Initiative: CLAM Week of 4/6/2020

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Ripple effect: Cornell helps restore Long Island’s shellfish

Hard Clam Marine Minute Monday

LISRP: Long Island Shellfish Restoration Project

3-D Clam Shell Project
Create a 3-D Clam Shell using materials you have at home!	3-D Clam Shell Instructions.pdf

Contact

Kimberly Barbour
Back to the Bays Director
kp237@cornell.edu
631-461-5294

Last updated May 1, 2020

Digital Education Initiative

Fast Facts

CLAM Fast Facts

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Clam Art Projects

How to Draw a CLAM

Simple Drawing	Advanced Drawing

Clam Art Timewarp-Continuous Line Drawing

Blind continuous line drawings are exercises in focusing in and paying attention to detail, something that is vital in both science and art.

By practicing this drawing exercise your are improving your observation, drawing, and hand eye coordination.The drawings are usually not very good, often looks like a big scribble, and make you laugh but it helps you to learn how to draw what you are actually seeing rather than what you think you see.

An example is the classic cotton ball tree drawing, two lines for the trunk and a round cotton ball shape on the top for all the branches and leaves. Although symbolic we all know that trees do not actually look that way but more often then not that is how they are drawn.

Get a pencil & paper, go outside in your backyard and look at a tree. Imagine that there is an ant on a new mapping expedition of walking the contour lines of the tree and your eyes must follow its every move while your hand with pencil is the map maker. You can not look down at your hand drawing because you will loose sight of the ant and then he will be lost forever. And if you lift your pencil he will hit a dead end!

Dominant Hand Continuous Line Drawing