Sailboat Reflections

Learning Targets

I can...

• Create an original Sailboat Reflection using drawing techniques learned in class
• Use color combinations (secondary primary complementary), line types (horizontal vertical diagonal), and value (lightness darkness) inspired by Realist Painter (1836-1910) Winslow Homer
• Use collage techniques (layering cutting overlapping) and design principles (composition variation proportion) based on Realism
• Define Seascape (a photograph painting or other work of art depicting a sea)

Lesson One
Day One, Art Start

1. Sunset Fires (1880) Winslow Homer

2. Read The Little Sailboat by Lois Lenski

3. Discussion Questions "How do you think this sailboat was made? what do you think was used to make this sailboat? What is a seascape? How do artists create depth in a work of art? What French American art teacher did Winslow Homer study under in New York City? How did Winslow Homer make his living in art for the first two decades of his career? Is what European city did Winslow Homer first have one of his paintings displayed, bringing him International fame? What sort of America has the veteran returned to? In the aftermath of the Civil War, how did Americans look back and look forward? What associations would a wheat field suggest to a Civil War veteran? What does the painting look back and look ahead? During this period, how did Americans promote the reunion of the nation? How did they reconceptualize their sense of national identity?"

Lesson Activities

1. Choose 12" X 15" Painting Paper

2. Use a pencil to draw a horizon line in the middle of the painting paper for boat paintings

3. Add scenery (ocean blue sky wooden fence lilies) to the negative space (background) of the Sailboat Reflections

Day Two, Art Start

1. Retrieve Sailboat Reflections for Assigned Tables

2. The Coral Divers (1885) Winslow Homer

3. Discussion Questions "What color forms within these paintings? How did the artist make the sky look different from the wave since they are both blue? Did you know Homer loved to go finishing when he was a child? What colors do you see in the water? What is the weather like? How did the artist show movement in the water? Does the sea look dangerous? How is a seascape different from a landscape? Do you know that Winslow Homer drew many pictures of the Civil War? Do you know that he lived in Maine, Bermuda, and Cuba? Can you find these places on the map? Have you ever thought about sailing on the sea? Do you think fishermen sailing on the sea encounter any dangers? How does the artist show perspective? How is origami related to mathematics?"

Lesson Activities

1. Add flowers (roses carnations tulips irises sunflowers) to middle ground (lake, ocean) of boat paintings

2. Add boat (sail boat, fishing boat, row boat) to positive space (foreground) of boat paintings

3.Use black sharpie marker to outline foreground (boat) and positive space (foreground) of Sailboat Reflections 

Day Three, Art Start

1. Retrieve Sailboat Reflections for Assigned Table

2. Set Up Studio Area (watercolor buckets colored pencils)

Lesson Activities

1. Use earth tones (brown yellow blue green) to fill in the positive space (boat) of the boat paintings

2. Use earth tones (brown yellow blue green) to fill in the negative space (background) of the boat paintings

3. Add highlights (reflective light, light source) and shadows (cast shadow, shadow) with colored pencil to Sailboat Reflections

Artist Examples

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