Regular Landscape turned into Alien Landscape

Students learn about the Impressionist painters' use of color and how it connected to early nineteenth century scientific theories about color. In this colors lesson plan, students explore combinations of primary and secondary colors,...

Young scholars review art history in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. For this art history lesson, students discuss art vocabulary emphasizing landscape, portrait, and still life. They visit the museum and create their own pictures. 

Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.

Young scholars create landscape art using five specific techniques. In this Landscape Painting activity, students read the biographies of famous landscape artists. Young scholars analyze artwork to determine which techniques were...

Students create a torn paper landscape and use it to study clouds. In this cloud study and art lesson, students make a background art image from torn paper. Students create a torn paper landscape and use cotton balls to illustrate...

The painting Arcadia features a lovely landscape depicting aspects of ancient Greek life. Little ones use their imagination to put themselves in the painting. After analyzing the details and artistic elements of the painting, they write...

Students create an original collage, using organic forms and shapes in overlapping manner to produce a landscape collage design. They also recognize the importance of how art uses these elements in their work to create depth.

Students investigate landscaping by analyzing an image with the rest of their class. In this painting analysis lesson, students create their own landscape painting and compare it to a famous landscape piece painted by Albert Bierstadt....

Students examine the composition of landscape paintings with an emphasis on foreground, middle ground, and background. They view and analyze a painting by Poussin, and create an original imagined landscape.

Learners watch a demonstration of wet on wet, dry on wet and dry on dry watercolor painting. They create an underdrawing, fill in washes of color and create a foreground, middleground and background once the washes dry. They add final...