5th and 6th Grade Art

We will be completing the glazing of the banks today and then the final firing will happen when there is room in the kiln schedule. In between the building and glazing of the banks, the students began a new landscape project. Each student had several choices of an impressionist landscape sample to work from. They began their piece by studying and sketching the horizon line and main elements of their chosen landscape. The next step of the project is to try and match the colors and textures of the original landscape by finding a similar color in a magazine photo. Attention to tone, color, texture and layers are the main objective of the process. It is difficult to not focus on details and have a clear plan of building the collaged fields of color.