My second and third graders been studying landscapes of all kinds, and the "tricks" artists use to make a painting look more realistic - or how, as one of my students said, to make a 3-D image on 2-D paper. We looked at many well-known landscape paintings, while we discussed and identified the "landscape terms" we've learned - foreground, middleground, background, horizon line, and perspective. They were able to point out techniques artists used - colors and objectsare darker and larger in the foreground, and lines of a road came together and met at the horizon line. Then, using an idea I modified from one of my favorite websites - http://www.artprojectsforkids.org/ - they created their own "rolling hill" landscapes below:
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