Folk Art Landscapes
This project introduces a simple landscape and it’s different parts and also correlates with the many folk tales and fables.
Resources
- 9 by 12 white drawing paper
- Black crayons
- Sharpie black pen
- Crayola Construction Paper Crayons or chalk
- Liquid watercolors
- Paintbrushes
- Henny Penny by Vivian French, Illustrated by Sophie Windham
- There’s a Wolf at the Door, Five Classic Tales by Zoe B. Alley, Illustrated by R.W. Alley
- Tom Thumb by Eric Carle
- Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter by Diane Stanley
Fine Art Standards
- STANDARD 1: (Making): The student will explore and refine the application of media, techniques, and artistic processes.
- OBJECTIVE 1: Explore a variety of art materials while learning new techniques and processes.
- b. Use simplified forms, such as cones, spheres, and cubes, to begin drawing more complex forms. c. Paint with complementary color schemes.
- e. Create the appearance of depth by drawing distant objects smaller and with less detail than objects in the foreground.
- f. Establish more natural size relationships among objects in drawings.
- OBJECTIVE 2: Discuss, evaluate, and choose symbols, ideas, subject matter, meanings, and purposes for their own artworks.
- a. Group significant works of art according to theme or subject matter.
- b. Judge which works of art most clearly communicate through the use of symbols.
- c. Create symbols in art that express individual or group interests.
- d. Create a work of art that uses a similar subject matter, symbol, idea, and/or meaning found in a significant work of art.
- e. Select some art for public display around the school.
Integrated Standards
- READING: LITERATURE STANDARD 2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- READING: LITERATURE STANDARD 7 Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
Objectives
- To learn the 3 basic parts of a landscape 1) background 2) middle ground, 3) foreground.
- Students will also learn about different patterns in art and how it relates to folk art. Students will correlate and compare the folk art with the folk tales they read in the classroom.