4th Grade Chalk Pastel

We stared the project by looking at a few different types of landscapes. Using pencil first, we added a foreground, middle ground and background to our paper. We used black glue to trace the pencil lines. After the glue was dry, students used chalk pastel to color in their expressive landscapes. What a mess! It was worth the mess; this simple landscape project turned out just great!

2nd Grade Landscapes with Treehouses

2nd Grade Mixed Media

Foreground, middle ground, background! 2nd grade has been working on landscapes for the past couple weeks. We put details in the foreground and then worked on the middle and background. The final step was to put a tree and tree house in the middle ground. For the writing piece of the project each student wrote a short statement about why they thought artists painted landscapes.

Artists paint landscapes... because they are cool and nice.

...because they are pretty.

...because people love to paint things.

...because they want to be creative.

2nd Grade Landscape

2nd Grade Landscapes! We looked at landscapes by Ted Harrison and then the second graders got to work on thier own masterpieces. Each landscape has a foreground, middle ground and background. One class used warm colors to complete thier paintings, the other used cool colors. Each 2nd grader used black paper to frame thier piece.