created by Sloane2218 in Grade 1 at
Baker Elementary School
from school project "First Grade Watercolor Fall Landscapes"
art id #134331020
About this School Project (First Grade Watercolor Fall Landscapes)
First grade students learned about a landscape and how it has a horizon line where the land meets the sky. They also learned that when artists create a landscape they make the things in the front of the picture big and the things in the middle a bit smaller and the things in the back the smallest. For the first part of the project students used Kwik Stix paint sticks to create the horizon line and fill in the grass for their landscape. Next they used the paint sticks to draw different sized tree trunks with the biggest and thickest in the front and then shorter thinner ones in the back. After that students were introduced to watercolor paints and they chose fall leaf colors such as red, burgundy, magenta, yellow, orange, green and brown to layer lots of colored dots on the top of their tree trunks to make them look like colorful fall trees. For the final part of the project, students used shades of blue and violet to fill in the sky color in between the leaves and the tree trunks.
