18. Your World/Our World
Landscape Painting
Objectives:
Learn and practice techniques to paint elements of landscapes
Paint with acrylic paints and characteristics of the paints
Blend values of color to create specific effects and elements
Compose a landscape with background, middleground, foreground.
Use perspective and elements of space to create depth on a 2D surface
Formative Assessment Tasks: Landscape Element Studies
Sky, trees, shrub, sun, horizon, mountains, clouds, grass.
Compositional Planning: Create 3 thumbnail sketches creating compositional studies.

19. Area of Interaction(s): Human Ingenuity
Guiding Questions:
How is visual interest created that will influence the viewer’s perception?
What kind of “dramatic effects” or elements, can be used to manipulate the environment?
Vocabulary: Perspective, Asymmetrical Balance, Composition, Emphasis, Focal Point, Positive
and Negative Space, Contrast, Value, Form, Foreground, Middleground, Background, Dramatic
Effects, Craftsmanship, Reflection/Analysis/Evaluation
Surreal Landscape- having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal.
Final Summative Assessment Task: Landscape painting representing a world of your making.