Organic and Geometric Shapes

Today for Art I learned about the difference between lines and shapes.  Then we talked about organic and geometric shapes.  Organic shapes are copies of things you see in nature such as leaves, flowers, trees and clouds.  Geometric shapes are used in math.  They have certain rules that decide what kind of shape it is.  Some examples of geometric shapes are rectangles, triangles, squares, circles, cylinders, cubes, spheres.  After we talked about the difference, I drew some shapes in each of the categories.  I noticed that the rules are very important in geometric shapes.  For instance, if you were trying to draw a hexagon but only put in five lines, then you wouldn't have a hexagon.  You would have a pentagon.  With organic shapes, there is more freedom.  If you put an extra bump on your cloud, it is still a cloud.  You could use geometric shapes as a part of a larger picture including organic shapes.  A picture of a flower might use a circle as the center.  Then you might add petals which would probably be organic shapes.