This lesson has become a staple for my 6th grade Core Art Class. Landscape is a great subject, very broad subject. Then choosing several artists with interesting, painterly techniques to inspire composition, approach to colors and mixing... you have a great lesson!
We look closely at Mandy Budan, a current Canadian Artist, and Vincent Van Gogh. Students create smaller thumbnail sketches in their sketchbook, (4x6), and practice painting with both artists techniques. Once they decide their own style, inspired by the two artists, we draw on a larger 16x14 paper. Students are required to have foreground, middle ground and background. Once drawn, sky and background are painted first, then middleground, followed by foreground. Each quarter, the students manage to create very different looking landscapes! No two are alike!
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