Session 1
1. Discuss with students the term landscape, what is included in a landscape and how landscapes can show emotion/mood. Show some examples of landscapes from various artists. Discuss also foreground, middle ground and background.
2. Have students create their foreground by drawing a tall tree or plant of some kind with their foreground line. (with a pencil)
3. Students add a middle ground of hills, mountains or other various landforms.
4. Students add a background by adding weather behind the middle ground ex: a sunrise/set, thunderstorms, clouds, snowstorm, tornado etc.. (I spoke with my students about how art can tell the viewer our mood and weather plays an important part in this, sun skies = happy, joyful while stormy skies can sad or gloomy)
Session 2
5. In each space students can now fill with words that describe the space in an appropriate color, for example if working with the tree students can use words like: branches, roots, twigs, bark, trunk etc... and use a brown marker or if creating grass students can be clever and write: "the green grass grows all around all around..." while using a green marker(students will not likely finish in this session)
Session 3
6. Fill the entire page with text leaving no gaps or large spaces until finished.
Students will fill out an exit slip with the following question:
Art changes the way we see things. How does creating a landscape with mood challenge us to connect with the viewer?
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