We looked at the artwork of Grant Wood, most famous due to his work "American Gothic". This painting was meant as a tribute to the hardworking American during the time of the depression. We also looked at Wood's landscape paintings which inspired a lesson on these textured landscapes.
Students grades 6th-12th worked on creating a collograph printing plate out of various materials. They began by sketching their landscape onto cardboard. They choose from the various materials available to them...burlap, string, tissue paper, foil, pipe cleaners, rice, etc. They needed to build everything up evenly and with no sharp edges by gluing onto to their base, using their sketch as a guide. They will ink this next week and pull a print revealing a textured landscape.
Students grades 2nd-5th grade worked on creating a textured landscape by first drawing their landscape in Sharpie. Then using various texture plates and warm and cool colors of crayons, they did rubbings in each section of their drawn landscape. Warm colors in front, cool colors in background, and I explained the why of this. This would be a good opportunity to ask your student if they remember why?
I will post pictures this week (camera glitch) but wanted to share what we are doing. Watch for it in the next post.
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