Winter Wonderland

 

Grandma Moses was a great Genre painter in he 1900's. She was a self taught folk artist that started painting towards the later end of her life. She loved to paint her quaint town in every season. She loved to tell stories of what her townspeople do during each season. She is a great artist to talk about for the WinterWonderland project. 

(see her 4 Winter Scapes below) 

 Crayon and Paper 

(no paint)

Set background aside and begin using colored scrap paper to draw houses. 

I show a slideshow of village scenes for them to get ideas for architecture. 

One way to get good images is google "Christmas Cards Snow Village". 

Add detail and outline for emphasis. Cut out and glue down onto the snows cape. 

After you glue down your village, go back to drawing on the background. I added a street lamp, sidewalks, extra large snowflakes toward bottom. 

Paper and White Paint

(no water)

While the background is drying, start to use paper to draw houses. Add detail and outline for emphasis. Cut out and glue down onto the snows cape. 

Water Paint Resist Method

have students draw the horizon line of snow on the paper towards the middle bottom. Add trees with black and snow with white crayon or white pastel. 

I tried this with white crayon and white oil pastel. The pastel tended to work better. 

Use the tempera cakes or water colors to add colors to the sky (any color except green). 

It can be morning, night or sunset sunrise although darker colors do help to emphasize the white snowflakes. 

Wilkinson houses

Adelaide,

Ayden & Maisie 

Hanson kinergarten houses 2018

Jacob, Sophia, jasper, 

Brantley

Venable 1st grade 2018

Abigail, Lexi, 

Alice, Piper,

Lydia, Lilly,

Irvin & David

Clarke kindergarten

Pipkin WInterscapes
2018 5th grade
Wyatt, Jose, Hannah D., Alex, 
NoName, Coltan, Skye, 

Neal's class

NoName, AJ, Devon, 
Jenna, Corbin,
Mila, Luke & NoName2

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Cannin, Kevin, Alyssa & Valerie. 
Smartt Winterscapes 2018

Cavern, Faith, 

Carter & Sammy

Campbell, serenity, 
Ramsie & Avery

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Soape 5th grade
Kailyn, jaylee (left), 
Josilen, Abigail, Isabella (middle), 
Kaleigh & Madison (bottom)

Sawyer from Smartt

Pipkin's 5th grade

  

While the background is drying, start to use paper to draw houses. Add detail and outline for emphasis. Cut out and glue down onto the snows cape. 

Voyages in a Hot Air Balloon

Mrs. Weimer's class (5th grade)

Mrs. Tucker's class (4th grade)

Alex, envy & daniel

From Mrs. Mahan's 4th grade

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Mrs. Polichnai's 

3rd grade class

Sofia, Jacob & Jeremiah 

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The David Fleck

He illustrates voyages over cities using hot air balloons. I am drawn to his use of color on the balloons. He leaves the city in colorless lines to focus on the details of the city. He uses a variety of sizes of balloons to show depth in the space. He makes the horizon low to make the viewer feel high. 

Sweet William

Sweet William's art has a lot in common with Fleck's; Low horizon & selective color. 

The project: using construction paper, make circles in various sizes. Use contour line designs. Outline with black marker. 

On white paper draw clouds in various sizes, but same style. Outline with marker. 

On larger construction paper turned portrait, draw a low horizon cityscape. Outline with marker. 

For all ages 😃

Cut out balloon circles and clouds. Glue above cityscape. Clouds can overlap balloons to add depth. 

Another way of the same idea. 

Using Printed Paper for balloons and white background.

Draw it all on white paper. Permanent marker outline. Watercolor the balloons. 

No scissors ✂️or glue. 

For More Hot Air Balloon lesson ideas, 

See my past unit study for elementary

http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2014/11/hot-air-balloon-unit.html?showComment=1418485438926#c1576022517299480288