Mountains

Land of the Lotus Eaters by Robert S. Duncanson

Heart of the Andes by Frederic Church 1859

SEE THINK WONDER

What do you see in the picture? What do you think is happening and what was the artist trying to tell you with this picture? What does this picture make you wonder about?

Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico - Out Back of Marie's - Georgia O'Keeffe

a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.

Mindfulness

Take your object and hold it in your palm

Get to know your object the best you can.

What does it look like? What colors do you see? Do you see any imperfections?

What makes your object distinguishable?

Take your time, and focus the best you can on your object.

If your mind wanders away from your object, that’s ok, just bring your attention back to your object.

Continue to examine your object and get to know everything about it

Assignment

We will use curved lines to create the illusion of depth in a landscape picture.

Draw a horizon line in the middle of the page.
Draw mountains on the horizon and color them to create textures and shadows like we did in the last project.
From the horizon line draw a curved line all the way to edge of the paper.
Draw another line that starts close to the first line at the horizon line but gets farther away as it moves to the bottom of the page. This will make it look like the river you are drawing wider and closer when it is closer to the viewer.
Color in the river (or make it a road it you want)
Color the ground to make it dirt or grass. If you wish, add trees and bushes, flowers and long grass.

Vocabulary

foreground

middleground

background

atmospheric perspective

elevation

rugged

overlapping: Overlapping in art is the placement of objects over one another in order to create the illusion of depth. Painting is a two-dimensional artistic expression

placement: Things closer to the horizon line appear further away. Objects closer to the bottom or top of your paper (canvas, etc.) appear closer.

size: - objects that are smaller will appear further away from the viewer.

space: the area around, above, and within an object. With consideration to drawings and paintings, our goal is to create the illusion of space.

detail: objects that are further away should have less detail than objects that are closer to the viewer.

Color and Value - objects that are further away are cooler in color temperature, while objects that are closer are warmer. Objects that are further away are lighter in value, while objects that are closer are typically darker in value.

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