Pastel Landscapes

In this lesson we were taught how to blend one or more colors and to introduce students to blend colors in landscape. We were first given a half sheet of paper where we were told to draw a geometrical shape and then shade it like it is suppose to look after shaded properly. After we got the feel for shading, we were told to get up and pick out a magazine clipping of different landscapes from nature. After we chose the magazine clipping we were told to either get an idea from that landscape or to try and replicate it. My picture was of the sky reflecting into a pond surrounded by vegetation. We had to color the different pastels dark and then blend them either with our finger or with a paper towel. This was a fun lesson, but messy!

An extension to this project could be to have each student make the different landscapes and then tell about how the picture made them feel and what steps they took to get it to look like the photographers.