Thursday, January 22, 2015

4/5s Learn About Ted Harrison

In keeping with our wintery theme for this chilly January, the 4/5 students looked at the colorful and somewhat stylized landscape paintings of the Canadian artist Ted Harrison. They noticed Harrison's way of breaking up areas into horizontal bands of color, separated by distinct lines. They sketched out ideas based on his work, made final drawings, went over pencil lines with white crayon to retain the separate areas, and painted with liquid watercolors that have the capacity to be quite intense. 

After all the lines are drawn, adding color

Beginning to paint

Different areas of blues

An atmospheric sky


A finished landscape showing distinct separation of color areas

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