Unit 3 Landscape
Overall objective:
In this unit you will explore adding color to the value, shape, and lines that you have spent all semester building your skills.
You will create a portfolio of many artworks that show your understanding of :
How to use tints and shades to create atmospheric perspective
How to draw trees and landscapes using the techniques presented.
Art Critique
(Summative Assessment)Follow these directions -
Examples: Read the Teacher and Student Examples below:
Artists: Choose a landscape painting by one of these artists: (If you find another artist you would like to use, please show it to Ms. Russo first.
Only Use Google Arts and Culture for your search
George Inness,
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton
Frederic Edwin Church
Alfred Sisley
Paul Cezanne
Thomas Cole
Write your art critique in Google Slides: Use the Infographic. Answer all the questions in each of the sections.
Estimated Time: 3 Lessons
15 min. Research Artwork on Google Arts and Culture
25 min Describe Section
25 min Analyze Section
25 min Interpret Section
25 min Evaluate Section
20 min Proofread, Design your Google Slide Deck
10 min Submit on Google Classroom and Add a link on to your Process Portfolio
Finished Early, Click here
Resources to help you:
Art Vocabulary to help you with your writing and understanding.
Atmospheric perspective: Objects in the background are lighter and less detailed.
Finished your Art Critique?
https://artsandculture.google.com/project/games
Explore Digital Coloring Books, Crosswords and games with Art and Sounds. Take screen shots of your Gaming experiments and add them to a slide on your Process Portfolio.
Options for the Landscape Portfolio
Tree Drawing Practice
Create a series of drawing of Trees in your sketchbook using the techniques in the video. ABCs
A: Asymmetry
B: Bifurcation
C: Caffeination
C: Chiaroscuro
Tree Drawing with Oil Pastels
The same as above but n ow try to add color and color mixing.
Value landscape in 6 Zones Painting
Step 2: Practice Drawing Trees
Step 3: Practice Sketches and Composition
Get approval by 2 of your peers of your thumbnail compositions
Composition Types
Step 4: Sketch the 6 Zones on the painting paper
Sketch lightly- These examples also have the base color in zone 3
Step 5: Add Tints and Shades (You may want to practice)
Monochromatic Tree Painting
Follow the steps on the infographic
Landscape Drawing in 6 Values- Pencil
Reflection Questions-Landscape
How does the sense of atmospheric perspective (feeling of depth) in your painting compare to the landscape painting that you wrote about in your art critique?
Tints are colors with white added and shades are color with black added. Which do you think you were more successfully at mixing? Explain why?
Have your drawing of trees and landscapes improved? if so, describe how, if no, describe what you would need to help you improve.
Describe howyou used the A, B, Cs in your drawing of trees.