ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
How are color and mood related?
How can you create an illusion of three-dimensional depth on a two-dimensional surface?
Why is it important to have resources when you draw?
STUDENT EXAMPLES
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Create a landscape whose subject and colors adhere to a mood (for example: peaceful, haunted, happy, sad, etc.). The landscape must have a foreground, middleground, and background. Students must, within each section, blend either from light to dark (for example: light blue to dark blue) or between three colors (red to orange to yellow).

REQUIREMENTS
Prep:
  1. Resources: You must use resources to draw anything that you want in your painting. If you want, for example, a boat, look up a drawing of a boat and draw from that. 
  2. Drawings: You must sketch out everything you want in your landscape before you get your final paper.
  3. Painting Practice: You must practice blending between three colors and from light to dark in a linear format and also within a series of shapes (circles or or other geometric shapes).
  4. Get Your Final Paper: Show your drawings and painting practice to Ms. B in order to get your final paper. 

Painting:​
  1. FG, MG, BG: Your work must have a foreground, middleground, and background. 
  2. Mood: The drawings/objects in your painting, as well as your colors, must adhere to a mood of your choosing.  
  3. Blending: There are no color ledges in your painting. You went from light to dark or between three colors in each section. 
  4. Craftsmanship: Your work is as neat as possible. 

Effort:
The student took time to develop their ideas fully.  Many new techniques were tried. The student made excellent use of class time.
Example from Prep (Step 3)                                              Example of going from drawing to FG, MG, BG.