Western Forest, by Emily Carr
Lesson Plan: Using Pastels to Create Emily Carr Trees in the Forest
Grade Five
This lesson will take multiple art classes to complete.
Purpose 5
Students will create an original composition, object or space based on supplied motivation.
Concept:
Teaching perspective: here, near, and far away
Concepts A. Outside stimulation from online pictures of tree paintings by Emily Carr
Concepts A. Drawing
The four main components of visual learning:
REFLECTION • responses to visual forms in nature, designed objects and artworks.
DEPICTION • development of imagery based on observations of the visual world.
COMPOSITION • organization of images and their qualities in the creation of unified statements. EXPRESSION • use of art materials as a vehicle or medium for saying something in a meaningful way.
In Reflection, attention is given to three major aspects:
1. analyzing structures in nature
2. assessing designed objects
3. appreciating art
In Expression, the focus is on purpose, theme and subject matter, as well as on media and techniques.
• Continue to explore ways of using drawing materials.
• Use drawing to add details, textures, create pattern or suggest volume including hatching and cross-hatching, shading, dotting
• Use distortion of line and shape in drawing for special design effects
• Abstract or simplify a form.
• Indicate perspective in drawings.
Techniques: blending
Materials:
Pastel Paper, cut into vertical pieces
Oil pastel packets [one for each student]
Paper Towel
Masking Tape
Desk protector
This lesson consists of the class as a group viewing examples of Emily Carr's art, then talking as a group about the images, and then playing with the materials. These steps will be repeated [view, talk, experiment] as we move through the concepts.
Who was Emily Carr http://www.museevirtuel.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/emily_carr/en/about/index.php.
Students begin their exploration of abstract or distorted shapes, line thickness, foreground and background by experimenting with basic paper and pencils.
Students then move to pastels and play with techniques, as viewed on Smart Board.
[Have examples of pastel technique on the white board.
Students then move to creating their own distorted, vibrant trees in a forest.
For Visuals of Emily Carr trees go to https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA862CA862&q=emily+carr+tree+paintings&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLhcKn-4ToAhWEt54KHbI1AB0QsAR6BAgLEAE&biw=1858&bih=977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vujQt6Fac1s
How to blend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vujQt6Fac1s
How to draw trees with pastels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0BwVbbuTGc
How to draw tall Emily Carr trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6Wb59FOIk
Tips for using pastels
Who was Emily Carr http://www.museevirtuel.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/emily_carr/en/about/index.php.
Exploring the beauty of rich pastels, in the freeing context of abstract subject matter.
Emily Carr's vibrant paintings of trees in the forest are a great prompt for teaching that art is not always an exact replication of the subject matter. It also helps to show that all human creation, be it a song, a poem, a drawing or even a mathematical equation, everything we create comes from a deep personal motivation to understand or to be understood.