Impressionism Landscape

STUDENT ART GALLERY 

2023

Jarezi, Aron, 

Laney K., Selena M. 

Winter Berry

Kinslee Harle

Evy M., Kaden Hodson, 

Kali C., Madison M. 

Armani M,, Jaidyn Short, 

Emily Rodgers, Melanie Camargo

Eduardo M.  7th grade

Trestin Moore 8th grade

Cadance Barrera 8th grade

2022

Josie Hornsby 8th grade

Josie & Michael's work before black outline... 

Michael, Zane, Jaylee, Avery

Braelyn

Vanessa, Kenzie, Jorja, Milo, 

Olivia, Valerie, Grayson, Addyson

2021

Francisco 

Sammy & Lucy 2021

Lovella, Victoria, Miguel, 

Yareli, Chloe and Kyla

Josilen 2021

Bella 2021

Look at these Impressionist Landscapes below by Vincent VanGogh and Clause Monet. 

How would you describe them? 

Vincent VanGogh

Claude Monet 

Landscape artists are still inspired by the Impressionists today. 

Look at the Modern Impressionist artist, Heather Brown

HEATHER BROWN ART

Kimberley Thompson Paintings

KIMBERLEY THOMPSON ART

ERIN HANSON

I keep a visual list of inspirational landscapes here... 

LANDSCAPE IDEAS

------------HOW TO CREATE THE IMPRESSION OF -----------

IMPRESSIONISM

The idea is creating sections of different colors in a contour of movement. 

The colors swirl and bend with the objects in the landscape. 

Learn about CLAUDE MONET and the IMPRESSIONISTS here... 

Keep Van Gogh's Starry Night in mind... 

The lines in the sky swirl, the lines in the tree wave, the lines in the mountains follow each other. 

Start by creating a simple line landscape with a pencil. 

Add contour line color to each object with different tints and shades of marker (non-permanent). 

Eduardo (7th grade) finds multiple landscape ideas and makes mini- sketches before he settles. 

Continue filling in each object contour line until done (like below).

Mikayla and Olivia adding contour lines to the landscape with marker. 

When you are done with contour line, get a cup of water and a large paintbrush. 

Cover each area of the drawing with water until it smears and blends together. 

Let Dry. 

Miguel is adding water to his lines to smear the colors together.

Using a permanent black marker, circle each area where the color changes in the least bit. 

This will take a lot of patience. 

Francisco patiently working on areas of color...

Before and After the outline...

Here are a completed examples. 

                                                            

For more examples that are similar in technique, go here... 

http://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2014/02/watercolor-blog-paintings.html

Haley & Hector

Alexis

See also...

https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2014/02/watercolor-blog-paintings.html

Surrealism Collages

 

All collages above created by 

Tabitha Morgan, TheLostSockArtTeacher

Student Collages Fall 2025

Selena, Eduardo Z., Eduardo M. 

Jeremiah, Trestin, Zane Strange

River, Jasmin, Davis

Aubrey, Peyton 

What is surrealism? 

In the art world, 

sur·re·al·ism

/səˈrēəˌliz(ə)m/

Learn to pronounce

noun

1. a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

In Mrs. Morgan’s words, it is something that looks realistic as though it is happening, but in reality it could never happen. Kinda like a weird dream you might have. It seemed real, but when you wake up, you realize it was bizzare. 

 jux·ta·po·si·tion

/ˌjəkstəpəˈziSHən/

noun: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.   

For example, using things in varying sizes together: an irrational arrangement like an elephant riding on the back of an ant, a person flying in a large shoe, a giraffe wearing a suit snd tie at the front of a classroom. 

col·lage

/kəˈläZH/

noun: a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric on to a backing.

-In French, it means "to stick down or glue". The first recognized artistic collage is widely considered to be Pablo Picasso's 1912 work, "Still Life with Chair Caning,"In Mrs. Morgan’s words, it is taking pictures or objects and gluing them creatively onto a surface.

Rene Magritte-Surrealism Artist

The two paintings below are by Rene Magritte

Son of Man

The False Mirror

Salvador Dali- Surrealism Artist

The two paintings below are by Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

The Temptation of St. Anthony

See how the professionals do it... 

You will be finding images in magazines to use. 

You need: 

-A big background piece (no words or cartoons)

-3 images that would not normally belong to your background. 

- cleanly cut out images to make them look like they are naturally in the background (not cut and glued) 

-see example below? 

Pay attention to how the toothbrush and mustard bottle were creatively put into background.  

Emily Love, 8th grade, mineola MS 

Melissa Grimes is a Modern Surrealism Collage Artist

 To See more

CLICK HERE

Surrealism Collage from 

www.thatartteacher.com

Watch a variety of ways to make the colalges'''

She explains her process here. 

This guy is seriously Surreal! WhAt an inspiration...

YOUR TURN!!!

You will be creating a collage from magazines to form a surrealism scene. 

The PICTURE  HUNT

You will need to find a picture to use as a 

BASE BACKGROUND first. 

This could be a room, landscape, or a design. The less words or advertising on it, the better. You can always cover unwanted words or adds with something you glue onto it. 

SUBJECTS

After the base background is found, you can hunt for THINGS to cut out and glue down. 

These should be REAL things (no cartoons or drawings) to make the picture seem real. 

Do NOT use pictures that are CUT OFF (unless they go off page) or that have words on them. 

They cannot be cartoon/drawings/ 

You need 4 or more added pieces to the collage. 

Examples coming soon...I