We learned about polar climates, landscape paintings, background, foreground, and horizon lines in kindergarten! We used liquid watercolor paints, paper and salt to create an aurora borealis-type background/sky. Then we did the same thing to a folded piece of paper, only this time they painted one side. We folded the dry side over the wet side and pressed, creating prints to add a variety to our foregrounds. After tearing our foregrounds into strips, we glued them to our backgrounds, established a horizon line first, and overlapped pieces to the bottom of our background paintings. Adding a white moon to our sky was the finishing touch.
Materials: paper, liquid watercolors, glue sticks, salt
Polar Landscape
Background
Watercolor Wash
Foreground
Watercolor Print
Practice pieces in my studio
Getting the lesson down
Sample of student work.
More samples of student work.
Adding the glue.
Decisions, decisions...
Placing the strip down.
