Lesson Plan: Landscape and atmospheric color

Rosemary Grala

Introduction: Fifth grade medium range with one disability and two students on behavior plans and meds.

Content: Use of materials and mediums. Also work in cool and neutral color or warm and neutral colors. This lesson is able to tie into social studies and the artists of the west who documented all the sights of the pioneers travelling west. Also could tie into science and the information given regarding the atmosphere and the color of the sky and the different textures of the landforms.

Objective: Given the art work of Bodmer and Bierstadt, and information, photographs and artwork of landscapes on web students will be able to see the production of atmospheric color and then make a landscape of their own in chalk pastels. Using only cool or warm color with neutrals.

Materials: Computer printouts of artwork and information on atmospneric color, posters of Bierstadt and Bodmer, pastel paper, chalk pastels

Procedures:

Introduce lesson by tying in Midwest and western social studies of pioneers documenting sights to send back east to get people to come west Show artwork and printout. A/P Ask which ones are using cool colors and which ones use warm.

Teacher will have hand made samples ready for students to see.Teacher will demonstrate how to work in chalk A/P Students will see a place where chalk has created atmospheric color and practice making their own blend on scrap paper. .

Then teacher will start showing a demonstration of how to sketch a landscape and then add the color in gradually choosing only warms or cools with neutrals.

Students will choose either warms or cools and use with neutral pastels..

Closure: Find a place on your neighbor's picture that uses a neutral color tell them what that neutral is. Then other neighbor must find the warm or cool color their classmate uses and tell them what it is.

Assessment: Hearing the students responses to each other is a way. The other way is reviewing their work as it progresses and when complete.

This sight includes beautiful landscapes with much information about atmospheric color among other things young artists want to know.