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Imaginative Cartoon Landscapes

Lesson Plan

Description

Students will explore the three parts of a landscape (the foreground, middle ground, and background) by creating their own cartoon landscape. They will analyze how size creates the illusion of space in a landscape artwork.

Level

Beginner

Areas of Study

AnimalsLandscapeTemperaMarkersColored PencilsSpace

Collections

Exploring Space Through Shape

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn about a horizon line and the three parts of a landscape: foreground, middle ground, and background.

Students will understand how size creates the illusion of space in a landscape artwork.

Students will create unique cartoon landscapes.

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Teaching Strategies

  • Facilitate a class brainstorming session focusing on possible locations for a landscape, e.g., the moon, a jungle, etc.
  • Explain what a horizon line is and discuss the three parts of a landscape.
  • Demonstrate how the size of objects creates the illusion of space.

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National Standards

Create

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Time Requirements

Teacher Prep Time

15 minutes

Demonstration Time

20 minutes

Student Studio Time

1 hour and 30 minutes

Supplies and Materials

  • White drawing paper
  • Pencils
  • Black markers
  • Colored pencils
  • Tempera paint
  • Paintbrushes
  • Water

National Standards

Create

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Steps

Brainstorm Landscape Ideas

Brainstorm creative locations for a landscape. (For example: the mall, the mountains, a sewer, etc.)

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Instructional Materials

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Basic Drawing Vocabulary

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  • Pre-K to 3rd Grade
  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
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  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
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Basic Drawing Vocabulary

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Areas of Study

DrawingLiteracy

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Expressive AbstractionApplied Color TheoryExploring my CommunityEmotion and IdentitySketching to ShadingSimple LandscapesLine in Everyday LifeAdvanced Math ConceptsMovement and MeOil Pastel TechniquesExploring Pop ArtInspired by Cave ArtShape CompositionsExploring Space Through ShapeBasic Still LifeMulti-Media TextureMonochromatic ValueWatercolor and Everyday LifeDesigning with PatternPortraits and PencilsCreating with Everyday ObjectsContemporary Street ArtExperimenting with Portraiture

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Space: Creating the Illusion of Depth

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  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
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Space: Creating the Illusion of Depth

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Areas of Study

LandscapeSpaceShape

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Exploring Space Through Shape

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Perspective for Beginners

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Reference

Imaginative Landscapes

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  • Pre-K to 3rd Grade
  • FLEX 3rd Grade - 1st Edition Scope and Sequence (Copy)
  • Line
  • Color
  • Shape
  • Contrast
  • 3D
  • Drawing I - Sample Class (Copy)
  • Still Life
  • Portraiture
  • Abstraction
  • Architecture
  • Beginning Exercises
  • Community
  • Identity
  • Test Unit
  • Unit 10
  • Unit 10
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Imaginative Landscapes

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Reference

Areas of Study

LandscapeLine

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Formative

A Line is a Dot on a Walk

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A Line is a Dot on a Walk

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Areas of Study

DrawingLine

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Expressive AbstractionSketching to ShadingSimple LandscapesLine in Everyday LifeExploring Space Through ShapeVisual ContrastOil Pastel Techniques

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Summative

Two Stars and a Wish

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  • Still Life
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  • Identity
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Two Stars and a Wish

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Areas of Study

DrawingLineLiteracy

Collections

Exploring my CommunityApplied Color TheoryMixed-Media SculptureRelief PrintmakingNature with Mixed MediaExploring ArchitecturePerspectiveIntegrating Graphic DesignExploring Space Through Shape

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Exit Slip 3 2 1

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FantasyRenaissanceCubismPop ArtStreet ArtImpressionismLiteracy

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Basic Still LifeMixed-Media SculptureDesigning with PatternWatercolor and Everyday LifeVisual ContrastExperimenting with TemperaWorking with Colored PencilAnimals Past and PresentIntroduction to SurrealismPinch PotteryApplying Balance in ArtCreating with Air Dry ClayEmpowering Identity in ArtExploring Space Through Shape

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