Drawing a Tree in a Landscape

 This project is inspired by the Spotlight Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Paper or Canvas is vertical or portrait for this exercise. 

Lake George 

Details of assorted tree elements by Georgia O'Keeffe 

All photos for educational purposes only 

Third Grade Collectors 2018-19

1/2/3-3  Landscapes Perspective – Students were introduced the Landscape drawing using a series of table top handouts and an brief art history overview. They could select one of 3 given landscape prompts to create their own composition. Project used pencil, watercolors, watercolor pencils and markers. Your imaginary landscape what is your story, who lives here?

4/5/6-3+ Broken Heart color values and line project-color value and blending, creating an interesting composition with a limited color palette. Marker used to add bold lines. Inspired by Pop Art and Picasso  

7-1+Event Project- Home is Where the Heart Is!: Love=Home, Home=Love, in the spirit of UP, enjoy this charming assemblage of hand created paper hearts, dozens of specialized

rainbow flowers, painted paper grass and hand placed cloud puffs set against an acrylic painted landscaped. There really is no place like this Home!

8 Modigliani self-portraits- how to draw a face oil pastels and direct drawing using a grid format, color blending setting a mood or tone. Expressive and Emotional project with lots of creative expression.

9-12 Colorful Still Life- Matisse inspired cut paper collage. Draw a table/horizon line, background and foreground, add cut paper symmetrical vase. Creating a complex composition and following a series of directions, building layers and details.

Imaginary Landscapes

Where does your imaginary story take place, create your own made up landscape.

guidelines:
must have 3-5 hills
 1-3 trees
some kind of weather
patterns and designs
no words, no people or structures...

Great Balloon Project

Perspective study

Dramatic Realistic Tree

Direct Drawing practice creating a dramatic tree in a landscape.
Drawing with pastels on pastel paper create your landscape add a sky of importance. Look at the work of Turner and Van Gogh for inspiration.

Folk Art Landscape with a bit of Klimt

Students spent 3 sessions creating a highly patterned country landscape with 3 trees and 3-5 hills. What is the weather, season, time of day?

Drawing in pencil then black sharpie they built layers and developed more complex patterns. Last they used metallic marker and gel pens to embellish and connect to the work the work of Gustav Klimt.

Gel pens added that extra sparkle!

5th grade session III realistic tree

For the past two sessions students have been drawing trees in a landscape and learning the basic elements of a landscape while creating a dramatic composition. Lots of discussion, observation and compare/contrast. Session 3 the artists used watercolors to complete their sketch. Working in layers and building colors they were challenged to create a realistically inspired landscape. This project is designed to introduce watercolor techniques and build painting skills.

1st Grade Session III Landscape Basics

Exploring colors and creating a landscape:
Can you take 2 colors and make a dramatic landscape?
 What are the parts of landscape?
What do blue and yellow make when mixed together?
This will be the base for our Jungle picture...

5th grade Art Session I

The lone tree, the cool night...how does a picture tell a story? What is your story to tell? Using basic elements of a landscape students will develop a personal narrative. Starting with a direct drawing process the 5th grade artists will be introduced to the idea of creating a more dramatic picture composition by cropping elements and moving off of the picture plane.  Students will experience using a variety of mediums and techniques based on this tree/landscape theme-creating 2 very different individual projects plus a group piece.

3rd Grade Art Session I

Pop Patchwork Landscapes is our first project for 3rd grade this year-students will work on this composition off and on all year, it is a perfect warm up to start the art day! Looking at famous art prints students will be introduced to the structural elements of landscape, foreground, middle ground and background. Observe seasons, weather, time of day and mood. Using lines and overlapping shapes they will draw a basic hill/tree landscape. Modeling the drawing techniques using Red Light Stop and Green Light Draw students will practice in unison then working in their sketchbook they will create their own unique landscape compositions. They must follow the guidelines of do's and don't regarding the elements for this project. This "ownership" encourages students to take a active part in their learning and  provides structure and direction withing a creative framework. Later we will add color and patterns to these landscapes frameworks to really make them POP!