Grant Wood kindergarten landscape art lesson

 Grant Wood Kindergarten landscape art lesson 

Sorry no photos for this lesson. I retired and the last month of school I did not save my class photos on this blog. But here is my video! 

For this lesson students learned about the America artist Grant Wood. We viewed his many landscapes (and of course his famous painting American Gothic) discussing foreground, midground and background. 

Fall Plowing by Grant Wood

I did a step by step tutorial on how to draw a landscape drawing to include a foreground, midground and background. 

Students were to draw various patterns in each section of their drawing. They could make up a pattern or include patterns of corn etc. 

My kindergarteners were very happy with the results! 

Here is a video of me teaching it. 

1st grade Heather Galler folk art landscapes and pattern lesson

Students learned about the folk  and contemporary artist Heather Galler. I found this idea on http://paintedpaperintheartroom.blogspot.com, Heather Galler has a great slide show on You tube. They loved her bright colors and the music that was set to the slide show. We discussed how she used patterns in her paintings and the difference between landscapes, portraits and still life's. We looked around the room and on our friends clothes for patterns as well as viewing patterns in nature.
We then set to work! We drew a ground line and then proceeded to take a ruler and divide our land into sections. On each section we drew patterns. The next step was to draw buildings, trees, bushes etc.

                                        

We then outlined everything in a fine tip permanent marker and colored the buildings and patterns with construction paper crayons. 

                                             

                                                                                                                    

               

When everything was colored we painted watercolors over the whole thing. This lesson took about three, 50 minute class periods. 

                                        

                                  

                                        

                                            

I believe this was one of their favorite lessons!

                                                 

They are always so proud of their work! Thanks Heather Galler for the inspiration!