10/22 - moonlight landscape

Autumn is my favorite time of the year!  I love how the trees come alive with color, all different variety of apples are available and fields of pumpkins color the landscape.  This week's project has a big Autumn full moon (did you see the moon over the weekend?) and a hill full of pumpkins.  We will talk about foreground, middle ground and background and how the size of our pumpkins will show depth in our work.  We will layer and blend oil pastels to round out our pumpkins and add a highlight on top where the moonlight (light source) is hitting.

We will look at a real pumpkin and practice drawing first - no basketball pumpkins!

Students will create three sizes of pumpkins (large, medium, small) on black paper. We will layer colors beginning with a light layer first and building up from there.  The pumpkins will be cut out and glued on the background (hill and full moon).  Lately, curved lines will be added to the pumpkins with black oil pastel.