Nothing can steal your breath away like a surprising sundown on a fantastic panorama scene. As troublesome as it’s to seize a sundown’s magic in a photograph or on a canvas, this lesson comes fairly darn shut! Landscapes enable viewers to see locations they’ve by no means visited or be transported again to a spot filled with recollections. Robin Mead is an artist who does simply that by creating whimsical landscapes with shiny, blended colours. Utilizing Sakura® Cray-Pas® Oil Pastels, college students will create their very own stylized panorama impressed by the work of Robin Mead.

Legendary Sundown Landscapes Lesson Goals
- Research the work of artist Robin Mead and establish ideas in her paintings such because the creation of landscapes, using heat and funky colours, mixing colours, creating a way of house, the inclusion of solar and water in every, and outlining areas of shade with thick black traces.
- Clarify how artists doc observations round them of their paintings.
- Interpret nature, bringing private concepts about nature to the paintings.
- Use Sakura Cray-Pas Oil Pastels as college students create their very own Legendary Sundown Panorama.
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Cross-Curricular Concepts
- Tie this exercise into an ELA lesson by having college students write a brief descriptive paragraph or poem to accompany their paintings, specializing in sensory particulars and vivid imagery.
- Join this exercise to a science lesson by having college students analysis how the ambiance creates colourful sunsets.
- Create a vocabulary lesson by having college students write a paragraph describing their drawing with out utilizing any of the predetermined widespread phrases you present on an inventory.
- Create a Social Research extension exercise by having college students select a seashore anyplace on the earth and analysis its historical past, present tradition, and another attention-grabbing information.