2nd Grade: Grant Wood Train Landscapes
2nd Graders learned about Grand Wood, Famous American Painter. He is best known for American Gothic, a painting featuring a farmer and his wife in front of their farmhouse. We looked at many of Wood's art, including many landscapes featuring farmland and the American mid west. We noticed how stylistic his art is and how well composed his art is. The viewer's eyes seems to travel around his paintings leading you to look at every aspect of it. Wood even did some historical based paintings, including one of Paul Revere and his midnight ride. We took Wood's themes of the midwest, farmland, meadering roads, and houses to create our own Wood-inspired awesome landscape.
I did a step-by-step of a basic landscape (including some rolling hills, farmland, house and trees. I also did a couple step-by-steps of trains (steam trains/diesel trains). And yes, the train idea was my own son's idea..no surprise. He'd been asking to do train art all year..and I thought this would be a great opportunity for it. Student's used metallic sharpie markers and crayola brand construction paper crayons to add lines, and color. We used Riverside Brand 76-lb black construction paper for this project. It is worth the additional price..the paper is heavyweight and won't fade and has a great dark color.
I just love the creativity and thought processes used to make these! I saw everything from shooting stars to tomato plants to electric trains in these...but that's what's great..every students had different ideas and the variety is so fun to see!
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