Landscape Paintings
For this project students made an expressive landscape painting by experimenting with various acrylic techniques, brush mark, and color combinations. They looked at the work of Vasily Kandinsky, Matthew Wong and Shara Hughs for inspiration on how to transform a realistic landscape into an environment charged with emotion. They made color swatches with mixtures of tertiary colors, complementary colors, tints, and neutrals. They combined all of these colors to illustrate value, depth and express a particular mood.
To create a landscape painting requires mastery in several elements of art, such as shape, color, line and composition. The students assessed their work throughout the project to ensure these elements coalesced into a unified composition. Using various language objectives, students analyzed their work to determine if these elements worked together to convey a mood. Visual rubrics, peer discussions and journal reflections were used to help them unify these elements into a harmonious composition. During the evaluation process students also enhanced their social emotional learning. They identified how their artistic strengths and challenges affected the message of their work. We capitalized on their strengths and improved through challenges to compose a compelling landscape.
7th Grade, Bamboo Pen & Ink and Watercolor on Watercolor Paper, 9” x 12”
