I'm switching gears with my 3rd graders from their biomes to their neighborhood. We have begun a cityscape project incorporating stencil making, painting, drawing and poetry. To better understand what a cityscape is, students listened to Round Trip by, Ann Jonas.
This captivating book is read in a "round trip" manner where your read the story forward and then flip the book over to see the illustrations differently on the way back. In the story there is a series of pages that emphasize a cityscape which we carefully observed and then tried and replicate in our own artwork. Students noticed the variety of shapes used in the buildings such as rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles and half circles.
We then applied those shapes to the roof lines of Boston to try our best to capture some of the significant buildings in our city - Prudential, Hancock, State House, etc.
Students then tried using a contour line to make their silhouette of the Boston skyline. The next step was to cut the contour line to create a stencil for their artwork. This was then taped onto a 18x20 inch paper and then the sky and water was painted in.
Once their papers were dry, students then removed their stencil and got busy adding details to their buildings, background and foreground by using oil pastels.
Bravo to work well done!!!
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