Painting Landscapes Like Gainsborough Lesson Plan

Description

This 9 page lesson plan includes the following:

• A little background on the artist,
• 6 Printable pictures of the artists’ work (including a self-portrait),
• A carefully crafted sentence about the artist that’s ideal for memorization
• Materials list
• Simple instructions that any non-artistic teacher can understand and use,
• Suggestions for scaling the project to different ages,
• A landscape template with a boy (so the students can focus on drawing the landscape),
• References to the pertinent Classical Conversations Acts and Facts cards.

I designed this lesson plan for use in our Classical Conversations community (Cycle 2, Week 15 for Fine Arts), but you could easily use it in a variety of situations.

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