This 4th grade art lesson was based on the use of pastels. We were taught the proper techniques of blending and shading pastel colors. First we were to pick a shape and have a light source shining somewhere on the shape. This gave it a three dimensional image. Than we learned about landscapes and got to select a picture of a landscape. We than started with the sky and worked our way downward blending and shading to create our landscape. If you want to make a shade of a color you add black and white to create a tint. The blending of dark and light colors gave the landscape a depth perception. I had a lot of fun creating my landscape.
As an extension students can learn about the different mountain ranges around the United States in geography class. Than they can take different photos of those mountain ranges and use the pastels to draw a huge map shading and blending the different mountain ranges.
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