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Landscape Morph Painting Lesson

 

Name of Project: Landscape Morph Painting
Classroom, School: 10th through 12th grade classroom at Southwest High School
Cooperating teacher: Cecily Spano
Grade Level : 10-12
Presenter's Name: Jane Wunrow
Subject: Painting
Topics: To work collaboratively and develop spatial skills through a morph painting
Visual Elements: slides, example work of lesson

Skills Development

Intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, rendering space

Key Knowledge and Applications

Spatial development, to work collaboratively and bend original concepts of ones own landscape

Prior Learning Needed

Basic painting skills, color mixing, and basic understanding of space

Objectives

  • Students will learn how to manipulate their original landscape concept to fit another
  • Students will learn to work collaboratively
  • Students will gain an understanding of space
  • Students will gain understanding of landscapes

Materials

      (class size: 20-30 students)

  • Watercolor paper
  • Acrylic paint: white, black, yellow, blue, red, orange, brown, green, purple
  • Cups for water
  • Paper towels
  • Plastic plates
  • Pencils
  • Paintbrushes

Teacher Vocabulary

                         write on chalk board
Space, Scumbling, Collaboration, Color mixing, Complimentary colors

Focusing attention

"You will be morphing your landscape into the person on your rights on your painting. You create what you want on the left and will change to morph into your rights."

Learning activities

  • Students will view slides of other landscapes
  • Class will view painting techniques and focus on color to produce space
  • Discuss with students the techniques used
  • Students will begin sketching their ideas and viewing sources for inspiration
  • Students are assigned who is on their right to morph into
  • Create paintings and morph
  • After everyone has finished critique the painting as a whole to view the transitions and discuss what is happening.

Feedback activities

Students will arrange their paintings in their morphing order to discuss their piece in full succession. They will also have questions to answer on the board discussing their techniques to define space and how they resolved the morphing of their concept into the person on their rights.

 

CVA 'Teaching Artist' students in cooperation with St. Paul and Minneapolis Public Schools and Minnesota State Arts Board Roster Artists.

The following photos were taken of artworks produced by students in Cecily Spano's 10th through 12th grade classroom at Southwest High School in Minneapolis during CVA student Jane Wunrow's Teaching Artist Practicum lesson on Landscape Morph Painting.
During their Spring Practicum, each CVA 'Teaching Artist' student is involved in 3 classroom
observations, interactions, and arts infused teaching experiences.