Textured Landscape Painting
Materials:
- Pre-drawn landscape printed on white construction paper (9×12)
- Blank paper
- Paintbrushes – small and medium
- Tempera Paints
- Paper Plates (for paint)
- Assorted Objects to use in Creating Texture
- Construction Paper for Mounting
- Stapler or Glue Sticks for Mounting
- Paint Shirts if Requested
Set Up:
- Line tables with newspaper
- Each student will receive pre-drawn landscape of their choice – either a mountain scene, underwater scene, house, winter scene, or a blank piece of paper so the student can create their own scene
- Each table will receive the following to share: Paintbrushes, Paper Plates with Tempera Paint, Assorted Objects to use in Creating Texture
- Provide students with a paint shirt if requested
Class Time:
- Begin your lesson with a discussion about texture (refer to Texture discussion).
- To demonstrate natural and artificial physical texture bring some items from home to show to the class.
- To demonstrate visual texture, show samples of real paintings demonstrating texture from art book or other sources provided in your folder or on art wall.
- Discuss project and give a simple demonstration on how to create texture with some of the various items (forks, q-tips, cotton balls, etc.)
- Request that the kids use the tools rather than just their paint brushes.
- Have the kids pick up their pre-drawn landscape before finding a place to sit at the tables. If creating texture using a fork or comb – have them paint the space first, so that there is a base of paint to drag the fork through.
- Encourage students to fill in all the spaces so that the entire paper is filled with color and texture.
- Upon completion, mount students’ paintings using colored construction paper of their choice.
- Please make sure that students’ names are on paintings.
- Clean Up
