Impressionistic Landscape
Students will draw an imaginary landscape using oil pastels in the style of Impressionist landscapes. They will use the oil pastels to create line and movement in their landscape, as well as incorporate the elements of balance and repitition. Students will need to take foreground, middleground and background into consideration in order to give their piece a sense of depth and perspective. Students will also reflect on their own work and explain how they used line, movement and balance to control the viewer's eye. Students will express how they manipulate the viewer and show positive emotions through the design and color of their landscape. They will discuss how our feelings are affected though certain colours and textures.
Success Criteria
We will know we are successful when:
Success Criteria
We will know we are successful when:
- Have created 3 planning sketches of different imaginary landscapes
- Figure out what kind of balance you will use
- Create a sense of movement with your mark, line and color
| impressionism_intro.pdf |
How to start the Impressionistic Landscape
1. Create a landscape from your imagination
a. Leave the images blank with no color (a cartoon)
2. Once the whole page has images over the entire paper color in all the empty shapes with solid color. Keep in mind to not let the same color touch itself from shape to another.
3. After all the shapes are colored in solid go back on top of the solid shapes with a different colored oil pastel to make your mark. Follow the contour of the land. Use multiple color marks on top of the solid landscape. The colors can be as fantastic as you see fit.
4. Think about moment and balance as you make the work.
a. Leave the images blank with no color (a cartoon)
2. Once the whole page has images over the entire paper color in all the empty shapes with solid color. Keep in mind to not let the same color touch itself from shape to another.
3. After all the shapes are colored in solid go back on top of the solid shapes with a different colored oil pastel to make your mark. Follow the contour of the land. Use multiple color marks on top of the solid landscape. The colors can be as fantastic as you see fit.
4. Think about moment and balance as you make the work.
Student Work Examples:
Assessment of all projects are based on the IB MYP rubric
| explanation_of_myp_rubric.pdf |
| myp_4_unit_1_art_9_made_you_look.pdf |
