October 13th-17th

Here's what we are working on.

Kindergarten: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar

First Grade: Ed Emberley's Go Away, Big Green Monster

Second Grade: Iguana Drawings

Third Grade: Watercolor Sailboats-Foreground, Middleground and Background

Fourth Grade: John James Audubon Birds

Fifth Grade: Architecture- St. Basils Cathedral

Sixth Grade: Van Gogh Sunflowers

Lesson Plan for teaching Foreground, Middleground and Backgrond

Mrs. Johnson: Art

Grade 3: Seascape

Foreground, Middleground and Background

Objectives:

Students will be able to

§          produce a watercolor painting depicting a foreground, middleground and background.

§          verbally identify foreground, middleground and background in a piece of artwork.

§          identify the artwork titled Van Gogh: Seascape at Saintes-Maries by Vincent van Gogh

Vocabulary: Foreground, Middleground, Background, Horizon Line, Seascape

§         Background is the area of the picture that is behind most of the objects in the picture.

§         Foreground is the area of a picture that appears to be the closest to the viewer.

§         Horizon line is the imaginary line that divides the sky and the ground.

§         Middleground is the area of the picture that is farther away from the foreground and closer to the background. (Between the background and foreground)

§         Seascape is a picture of a view of an expanse of sea.

Materials:

Print: Van Gogh: Seascape at Saintes-Maries, Pencils Erasers, Watercolor Paints, Water Containers

Vincent van Gogh
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Arles: June - early in month, 1888
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe
F: 415, JH: 1452

Van Gogh: Seascape at Saintes-Maries

 

Introduction:

§          Show students van Gogh seascape.  Ask students what they see in the painting.

§          Introduce vocabulary to students using van Gogh painting with foreground, middleground and background clearly labeled.

§          Teacher will demonstrate drawing the horizon line.

§          Next teacher will draw the foreground (rocks in the front of the paper)

§          Teacher will then draw sailboat in the middleground (middle of the paper). 

§          Teacher will then draw mountains and a lighthouse in the background (back of the paper).

 

 

 

Procedure:

§          Students will use a ruler to draw the horizon line.

§          Students will draw the foreground (teacher will show examples.) i.e. rocks, sand

§          Students will draw an object in the middleground. i.e. sailboat, island with trees

§          Students will draw the background. i.e. mountains, hills, clouds, sky

§          Students will paint their picture using watercolor paints.

 

 

Closure:

§          Teacher will revisit learned vocabulary.

§          Teacher will display student artwork around the room. 

§          Teacher will have students identify the foreground, middleground, background, and horizon line in their own artwork. 

Assessment: Teacher Observation, Rubric

Don't forget to stop by the Art Room Thursday night at Back to School Night!! Come and see what your children are creating.

Come check out Playful Prints: Animal and Circus Scenes at the Philadelphia Art Museum.  Enjoy the work of artists Alfred Bendiner and Peter Paone.

Playful Prints: Animal and Circus Scenes

Korman Galleries 121–123, first floor

Visitors of all ages will delight in this playful selection of twentieth-century works on paper. A section devoted to circus scenes includes works by two of Philadelphia’s favorite artists, Alfred Bendiner and Peter Paone. Also on view is a menagerie of animals of every kind that features etchings by Pablo Picasso, woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi, and lithographs by Wanda Gág.

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