Peer Teaching- Line Landscapes

Description: For our drawing media, we chose to do a Line Landscapes Project. We went over Vincent Van Gogh and his paintings. We talked about where the horizon lines were in each painting and where each "ground" was. We discussed some vocabulary terms and how they related to this drawing project. Students got a piece of white water color paper. On that they drew a line landscape, where they needed a horizon line, at least 4 types of lines, an object/tree, and be able to differentiate between the foreground, middle ground, and background. We started by having them think of different sceneries they could possibly draw and then what kinds of trees and objects could go in those sceneries. We had them first draw a horizon line, whether it was arched, straight, or curvy. Then they drew a tree or an object such as, a barn, windmill, tractor, etc. Once they had their whole scenery drawn, they put lines everywhere possible from zig-zag to polka dots to diagonal lines. They had to have a minimum of at least 4 different types. As soon as they got all four of their lines drawn, they had to outline everything in their sharpie. One of the last steps was to water color their Line Landscape. We told them about proper painting techniques and also used this time as a lesson closing and again go over what we talked about and learned today. Lastly, they mounted their drawing on a piece of colored construction paper and filled out their rubric/ peer evaluation.

Extension Activity: For an extension activity for this project, I think I would have them do a creative writing assignment. I would have them imagine that they visited the place that they drew in their Line Landscape and they would have to be very detailed. They would have to include all senses like, what does it smell like, look like, feel like, sound like, and what does the food from around there taste like. They would have to write about the horizon line, foreground, middle ground, background, and what the trees and objects are like. They could also talk about any kind of lines they see, whether in a tree bark, on a shed, or on a cactus.