Soft Pastel LAndscape
Students will discover how to create a landscape using chalk pastels.
Goal: Maintain an intense level of observation
Product: (Major Assignment): A drawing that uses color, value, and tone to accurately represent a landscape.
Process: Complete Assignments #1 & #2. Complete Major Assignment.
Tips:
Sketch the landscape as light as possibly.
Layer chalk pastels
Colors are rarely one chalk color by itself, 99% of the time it is a mix/blend.
Don't blend EVERYTHING
**Worksheet Assignment #1: - Minor Assignment (10 pts)
Complete color worksheet with color pencils & glue into assignments section in sketchbook.
**Mini Assignment: - Minor Assignment (10 pts)
Use chalk pastel to create a mini landscape
**Charcoal Still Life - Major Assignment (100 pts)
Paper: 11x14 - taped on boards
Media: Soft-Pastels
Use your tablet to find an image of a landscape that you like - save it to your computer for your weebly. Begin sketching out the landscape as lightly as possible. Work from the background forward with soft pastels. Start with the sky and blend your colors until it matches your image. Continue to work your way forward in the picture, blending and adding unblended details. Don't forget to take pictures as you go.
Turn in to have sprayed with fixative. Take a picture and create a weebly page.
Goal: Maintain an intense level of observation
Product: (Major Assignment): A drawing that uses color, value, and tone to accurately represent a landscape.
Process: Complete Assignments #1 & #2. Complete Major Assignment.
Tips:
Sketch the landscape as light as possibly.
Layer chalk pastels
Colors are rarely one chalk color by itself, 99% of the time it is a mix/blend.
Don't blend EVERYTHING
**Worksheet Assignment #1: - Minor Assignment (10 pts)
Complete color worksheet with color pencils & glue into assignments section in sketchbook.
**Mini Assignment: - Minor Assignment (10 pts)
Use chalk pastel to create a mini landscape
**Charcoal Still Life - Major Assignment (100 pts)
Paper: 11x14 - taped on boards
Media: Soft-Pastels
Use your tablet to find an image of a landscape that you like - save it to your computer for your weebly. Begin sketching out the landscape as lightly as possible. Work from the background forward with soft pastels. Start with the sky and blend your colors until it matches your image. Continue to work your way forward in the picture, blending and adding unblended details. Don't forget to take pictures as you go.
Turn in to have sprayed with fixative. Take a picture and create a weebly page.