Abstract Landscapes
Grade Level: High School
Media: Acrylic paint
Students will learn about foreground, middle ground, and background in a landscape and how things look up close and farther away. They are introduced to different artists that use different painting styles such as realistic, blocky, and loose techniques. They will choose a painting style from one of the artists to incorporate within their piece to create a landscape.
Planning Page
Step 1: Students will fill out a planning work page about what painting style they are going to choose to incorporate within their landscape.
Underpainting/Tracing
Step 2. Students will paint their canvas with one color for an underpainting and find a reference image using Unsplash to trace on an iPad.
Projecting
Step 3: Students will project their landscape drawings onto their canvas.
Background
Step 4: Students will start with their background first and move forward in the painting to the middle ground.
Detail
Step 5: Students will use smaller brushes to add refined little detail to their paintings for finishing touches.
Finished Work
