Art 10/7/2014 Explorers and Trailblazers

We looked at three different paintings of The Trail of Tears and  talked about different artists  representation of the same historical event. The first painting was by Robert Lindneux. The second was John Guthrie and the third was mine, in order to show that we can all have a different ideas about how to tell the story. As we looked at the paintings we talked about perspective and color. The children then created a painting of the same event from their own creativity.

 We looked at painting from the three historical events that they learned about in history. Again, we noticed color and how the artist showed perspective. We talked about contour lines and what they are. Our project was to arrange some leaves on paper and draw contour lines around them and color only the background, or "negative space".