Lesson 2: Painting - Sunset

Activity: For this activity, the teachers choose to talk about the painter Ted Harrison, Harrison used bold lines and also contrasted his lines to create the illusion to what the sunset would look like. This is what we did for this lesson, create the same sunset Harrison used to make. First of all, the reason this artwork didn't turn out for me was there was no paint that had the original color or color pallets at all to remotely try to create a sunset. I suggest to have the paint containers cleaned to the original color or none missing. I created a river in the middle of my hills to create a little more character. Then I painted my sky with light orange and yellow to simulate a sunset and darker colors for my hills, because as I was using my green color they were mixed so much in my dark colors, it landed up having dark colors. Otherwise, this project we pretty good. 

Extension Activity: A extension activity for this project would be to create at a farther angle, and add the students hometown as a silhouette, they will still be creating the landscape and everything, they would just be creating something personal to them. Then they could take it home and show their parents their hometown. This lesson would fit for 4th grade students, since its so much work.