Painting Landscapes Like Gainsborough Lesson Plan (2nd Ed)

Description

In this art lesson, students will learn about the British Baroque painter, Thomas Gainsborough. THen students will create a landscape painting with an imaginative background of their choice.

This 2nd Edition (2019) 17-page lesson plan includes the following:

• A condensed background on the artist
• A carefully crafted sentence about the artist that’s ideal for memorization
• 9 Printable pictures of the artists’ work (including a self-portrait),
• An overview of landscapes and a “Creating Landscapes” handout
• “Methods of Perspective” Poster
• Vocabulary words and definitions
• Clear and concise instructions for the art project
• Materials list- common painting supplies
• A landscape template with a boy (so the students can focus on drawing the landscape),
• Suggestions for scaling the project to different skill levels
• Encore ideas for extending the project and learning through repetition

For more info and some extra photos, check out the blog post Painting Landscapes Like Gainsborough.

I designed this lesson plan for use in our Classical Conversations community (Cycle 2, Week 14 for Fine Arts), but you could easily use it in a variety of situations.

References to Classical Conversations do not constitute or imply endorsement by the company.

This item is also available, at a discount, within the Baroque – Impressionist Artists DELUXE Package- Cycle 2 (2019), which includes 6 lesson plans and is ideal for weeks 13-18 of Fine Arts in a cycle 2 Classical Conversations Foundations community.

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