2nd Grade Folk Landscapes!

For this project, we looked at the artwork of Heather Galler. She is an artist who paints folk-style portraits, city-scapes, and landscapes. We talked about the use of lines and patterns in her work. The students then filled in a worksheet about lines and patterns to give them practice. The next class we discussed landscapes and talked about foreground, middle-ground, and background. They then drew their landscape in the style of Heather Galler.

The next few classes were dedicated to adding lines and patterns to the landscape with marker. The goal was to have the whole paper completely colored and colorful with unique and fun patterns and lines.