Students learn about the life and art of Emily Carr and create an oil pastel landscape in her style. Students recognize the influence of Canadian art and the native people of the Pacific Northwest of er works.

pencils
paper
oil pastels
Optional: The book, Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart

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1. Introduce the life and art of Emily Carr through a teacher made PowerPoint and the book, Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart. Focus on Canadian art and the native people of the Pacific Northwest.
2. Teach students about background, foreground,and middle ground. Demonstrate how to create movement (like Emily) in their art piece.
3. Have students draw their pictures making sure to draw foreground trees first, then middle, and then background trees. Trees in the background will be skinnier than trees in the foreground.
4. Teach students how to use oil pastels and blending techniques. Students then color their drawings with oil pastels using dark and light and blending different colors.

The book, Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World by Jo Ellen Bogart

Posters of Emily Carr's work

[K-4] Students use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas

[K-4] Students describe how different expressive features and organizational principles cause different responses

[K-4] Students know that the visual arts have both a history and specific relationships to various cultures

[K-4] Students identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times, and places

[K-4] Students demonstrate how history, culture, and the visual arts can influence each other in making and studying works of art

[K-4] Students describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks

Modernism, Post-Impressionism

Movement, Color/Value

Pastel

Multicultural Studies

Emily Carr.ppt