The Impressionistic Landscape
(MYP Criteria: Application, Personal Engagement)
Learning Intention
Students will draw an imaginary landscape using oil pastels. They will create an impressionistic work using blending techniques to compositions and balance. They will take foreground, mid-ground and background in to consideration. Students will reflect upon and explain how they use line, movement and balance to control the viewer’s eyes. Students will express how they manipulate the viewer and show positive emotions through the design and color of their landscape. They will discuss how our feelings are affected though certain colours and textures.
Students will draw an imaginary landscape using oil pastels. They will create an impressionistic work using blending techniques to compositions and balance. They will take foreground, mid-ground and background in to consideration. Students will reflect upon and explain how they use line, movement and balance to control the viewer’s eyes. Students will express how they manipulate the viewer and show positive emotions through the design and color of their landscape. They will discuss how our feelings are affected though certain colours and textures.
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How to start the Impressionistic Landscape
1. Create a landscape from your imagination
a. Leave the images blank with no color (a cartoon)
2. Once the whole page has images over the entire paper color in all the empty shapes with solid color. Keep in mind to not let the same color touch itself from shape to another.
3. After all the shapes are colored in solid go back on top of the solid shapes with a different colored oil pastel to make your mark. Follow the contour of the land. Use multiple color marks on top of the solid landscape. The colors can be as fantastic as you see fit.
4. Think about moment and balance as you make the work.
a. Leave the images blank with no color (a cartoon)
2. Once the whole page has images over the entire paper color in all the empty shapes with solid color. Keep in mind to not let the same color touch itself from shape to another.
3. After all the shapes are colored in solid go back on top of the solid shapes with a different colored oil pastel to make your mark. Follow the contour of the land. Use multiple color marks on top of the solid landscape. The colors can be as fantastic as you see fit.
4. Think about moment and balance as you make the work.
Success Criteria
We will know we are successful when you:
- Have created 3 planning sketches of different imaginary landscapes
- Figure out what kind of balance you will use
- Create a sense of movement with your mark, line and color
- The composition is filled in completely with no white paper showing through
- I have multiple layers of color on top of my solid background color
Student Impressionistic Landscape examples
Assessment of all projects are Standard Based on the IB MYP rubric
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