Students will learn about the parts of a landscape and create a mixed media landscape that incorporates all the parts of a landscape.
Essential Questions:
What are the parts of a landscape? How can the placement of horizon line, background, middle ground and foreground effect the composition of a landscape?Standards:
Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts. Dance: • move • perform • read and notate dance • create and choreograph • improvise Music: • sing • play an instrument • read and notate music • compose and arrange •improvise Theatre: • stage productions • read and write scripts • improvise • interpret a role • design sets • direct Visual Arts: • paint • draw • craft • sculpt • print • design for environment, communication, multi-media. 9.1.12.C Integrate and apply advanced vocabulary to the art forms.
Vocabulary:
horizon line: Where water and land meet sky at eye level is the horizon line in a perspective, linear illustration. It is a principal element in art when depicting space in drawing.
parts of a landscape: background, middle ground, foreground.
mixed media: A technique involving the use of two or more artistic media, such as ink and pastel or painting and collage, that are combined in a single composition.
Watch the presentation below.
Review the directions for the art project.
2. Lightly sketch a landscape onto watercolor paper.
3. Answer the choice question below.
4. You will complete step 2 of the landscape in the next lesson.
Rubric
Project total: 25 points
Composition and tissue paper fill the whole page: 5 points
Evidence of foreground, middle ground, background, and horizon line: 10 points
Craftsmanship and neatness: 5 points
Creativity: 5 points
Project total: 25 points
Composition and tissue paper fill the whole page: 5 points
Evidence of foreground, middle ground, background, and horizon line: 10 points
Craftsmanship and neatness: 5 points
Creativity: 5 points