LESSON 7 HERE, NEAR, AND FAR: LEVEL B …

1 HERE, NEAR, and far :Foreground, MiddleGround,Background LESSON 7 LEVEL BPERSPECTIVE (SPACE) LESSON 7B Silicon Valley Art MuseumGetting Started: Think how you willmake your landscape. What shapes willbe in the far-off background? In themiddle ground? In the foreground? You will use mixed media, a combinationof cut paper and a dip-and-draw paint technique to make this The lightest color paper is yoursupport paper. It will serve as the background. Cut an outline of hills orsome other skyline from a medium colorpaper. This is for the middle ground. Itshould reach to the bottom of thesupport Cut the darkest paper, the fore-ground, to show another outline at thetop, shorter than the middle bottom of the picture should beWHAT YOU WILL LEARN:using mixed mediato create alandscape with perspectiveThomas Cole Notch in the White MountainsNational Gallery of Art Washington D CTIPS : Take time to look closely at landscape paintings bywell known artists.

2 Thomas Cole sNotch in the White Mountainsisan example. Pretend to be smallenough to enter one of these pictures: Where would you start?Where would you go? You wouldprobably begin in the foreground,the part that seems through the landscape,you will reach the middle groundand wander off into the background. Notice where theartist has madethelargest shapesand strongest colors..in theforeground. Now look for thesmallest shapes and palest colors. They probably are in YOU WILL NEED:Construction paper, x (12 x 18 ) in three nature colors, such as tan, light blue,green, gray, brown; white tempera paint in a shallow container; broken pieces of artchalk; scissors; paste or glue;moist sponge;papertowels;newspaper to cover the 7B page 2 Silicon Valley Art Museumthree papers thick. Touch-glue them Now you can paint objects on the landscape with the dip-and-draw technique. Dip a piece of colored chalk into the tempera and draw a again every two or three strokes to keep the chalk from powdering off.

3 (You will notice an Impressionistquality of strokes of color, suchas the painter, Claude Monet,might have used.) Cover most ofthe picture with dip-drawn andnatural things so that the papercolors almost disappears. Useyour darkest chalk tones in the foreground and the lightest onesin the faraway background. Letthe paper colors remind youwhich chalk tones to use andhow big to draw the Age 9 CLEAN UP: Wipe the paint off your chalks bystroking them on a moist put them away. Throwaway the newspaper. Wipe thetable and any spills. Wash yourhands and put away the rest ofyour no one willsay, Clean up that mess! WORDS TO LEARN:Impressionist quality: The Impressionistpainters tried to capture the effect oflight on the objects and scenes theysaw. They used dabs of unmixed color tolook like the effects of worked rapidly and let their brushstrokes ABOUT IT:Can you see the differences between the foreground, middle ground and background of yourlandscape?

4 If not, how could the picture be changed to make that happen? CONNECTIONS: 1. Pretend to walk through any traditional landscape painting. Stop and lookaround. Describe the scene from that look-out point, orally or in Find out about the Impressionist painter, Claude Monet. What were someof the things he painted? Do you like his style of painting? Why or why not?Try: IDEAS: Now that the different colored papers have shown you the distances in a painting, do another dip-and-draw landscape painting on a single, medium color paper. LESSON 7B page 3 Silicon Valley Art Museum