After long breaks with the 2nd grade students due to short weeks, they finally finished their landscape pics. First step of the process was to discuss the use of foreground, middle ground, and background to the students using the Birmingham Museum's Learning about Landscapes page. We discussed all of the tricks that landscape painters from the Hudson river School used to create a sense of grandness in their paintings and tried to re-create some of these tricks in our own marker drawings of landscapes. the most important part of this process was to explain to the kids that we were creating a winter scene without snow, so the trees had to have no leaves (unless they were evergreens of course). This was the hardest part because the kids wanted to make snowy mountaintops and such, so I had to tell them that we were going to make it snow later.
In order to make the snow, the students used white glue to draw lines around the landscape which gave us a wonderful opportunity to hone our observational skills as we looked at trees outside the window and noticed how snow would land on the trees and stick in certain places (normally there is snow on the ground for us to see, but this warm winter forced us to use our imaginations this year).
After the glue has dried (next class) the students used brayers and white block printing ink to run over their pics and the dried, raised glue lines picked up the ink as well as some marks that looked like snowfall. Very happy with the way these turned out!
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