Name Natalie Hyde
Lesson Title 3D Landscape
Grade Level High School
Duration 2 weeks, 45 minute bells
Sample See me for example
Rationale Students will create a dissected landscape. This method will require
the students to distinguish between foreground, middle ground, and
background. They will carefully dissect the landscape and then
precisely reconstruct it.
Central focus Students will learn about different parts of a landscape. In this project
they will focus on foreground, middle ground, and background.
Students will find a reference photo from a magazine. They will then
sketch out the foreground, middle ground, and background in their
sketchbooks. They will draw all three as SEPARATE images. When
they have all three layers sketched out then they will begin to draw
their foreground on acrylic paint paper. They will paint their
foreground, making sure to use the image from the magazine as a
reference. Then the students will cut out their image. They will take
their foreground and lay it on top of a new piece of paper and draw
and paint their middle ground. Students will have to make sure that
their layers line up perfectly. They then cut the middle ground out and
finish with their background. Once they have all of the layers done
they will glue them together with cardboard spacers in between the
layers. This will give the painting depth. Doing this will help distinguish
the difference in layers.
Standards 1PR Demonstrate basic technical skill and craftsmanship with various
art media when creating images from observation, memory and
imagination
4PR Establish the appropriate levels of craftsmanship when
completing artworks.
1PR Demonstrate basic technical skill and craftsmanship with various
art media when creating images from observation, memory and
imagination
Objectives 1. Students will create a 3D landscape
2. Students will be able to identify foreground, middle ground,
and background in a landscape.
3. Students will gain skills with acrylic paint to create a landscape
painting
Academic Language Foreground
Middle ground
Background
Landscape
Resources and materials Acrylic paint
Acrylic paint paper
Brushes
Water
Palette
Scissors
X-acto knife
Hot Glue
Cardboard
Assessment Students will be graded on a rubric
Layered Landscape 50 points
Student Name ______________________ Total______/50
CATEGORY 10 8 6 4 2
Reference A reference A reference A reference A reference no reference photo was used for th
photo was photo was photo was photo was used
used for this used for this used for this for this painting.
painting. The painting. The painting. The The painting
painting closely painting painting slightly doesn't
resembles the moderately resembles the resemble the
photo in scale resembles photo in scale photo in scale
and color. the photo in and color. and color.
scale and
color.
Cutting The landscape The The landscape The landscape The painting is not cut out
layers are cut landscape layers are cut layers are cut
out skillfully. No layers are out. Some out. The is a lot
white is cut out. Little white is of white showing
showing and white is showing and and cut lines are
cut lines are showing and cut lines are messy and
clean and cut lines are inaccurate uneven
straight clean
Painting Painting is neat Painting is Painting has Painting is not Painting is not complete
quality with many neat with some layers. neat and has
layers of paint. many layers Paint is one layer of
Paint is opaque of paint. somewhat paint. Paint is
and no paper is Paint is opaque and not opaque and
showing opaque and little paper is paper is
through. Brush little paper is showing showing
strokes are showing through. Brush through. Brush
neat and through. strokes are strokes are
detailed Brush uneven and messy and
strokes are messy in uneven in most
mostly neat places of the painting.
and
somewhat
detailed
Layers Landscape was Landscape Landscape was Landscape was Landscape was not split into layer
dissected into was dissected into dissected into
the correct dissected the 3 layers. the layers, but
layers, into the Layers could layers are not
foreground, correct be correct, and in
middle ground, layers, reconsidered the wrong order
background. foreground,
Splitting the middle
photo up in an ground,
interesting way background.
Constructio Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape is not put together, or g
n layers are lined layers are layers are glued down, and
up, glued lined up, mostly lined up, painting is put
down, and glued down, glued down, together. A lot
painting is put and painting and painting is white can be
together is put put together seen behind
correctly. No together correctly. Some each layer.
white can be correctly. No white can be Layers don't
seen behind white can be seen behind match up and no
each layer. seen behind each layer. cardboard was
Layers line up each layer. Layers line used
seamlessly and Layers line mostly and
cardboard was up and cardboard was
used to cardboard used to
separate the was used to separate the
layers separate the layers
layers
