Raise your hand if you have ever imagined traveling to another country or any foreign place. Which country? Why? What did you imagine it would be like?

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Raise your hand if you have ever imagined
traveling to another countryor any foreign
place.Which country? Why? What did you imagine
it would be like?
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Henri Rousseau
Imaginary Exotic Landscape Paintings by
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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Part 1 Background information
• Learn some facts about Henri Rousseau
• Look at some of his Landscape paintings
• Learn the 10 Classic Compositions
• Part 2 Developing an idea
• Visit the wetlands to plan, sketch and
  photograph our compositions
• Part 3 Developing your composition
• Create an imaginary character to include in
  our sketched landscape compositions
• Part 4 Preparing for painting, developing
  technique
• View a demonstration of watercolor techniques
  and complete an exercise
• View a demonstration of watercolor brush
  stroke and complete an exercise
• View a demonstration of a watercolor landscape
  and complete an exercise
• View watercolor paintings by the masters
• Part 5 Creating original painting
• Sketch our landscape and paint it with
  watercolors

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• Henri Rousseau was a French painter that was most
  famous for his exotic jungle scenes.
• He lived in Paris, France from 1844-1910.
• He served in the French army.
• He worked in the French customs office and
  retired in 1893 to devote him self to art.

• In 1908 Pablo Picasso gave a banquet in his
  honor.
• He claimed that the inspiration for his jungle
  landscape paintings were from trips to Mexico.
  However, he did not go to Mexico the images were
  from his imagination.
• He studied plants and animals at the zoo and
  botanical gardens in Paris to develop his
  landscape paintings.

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Apes in the Orange Grove
• Two Monkeys in the Jungle
• What is in the foreground? middle ground?
  background?

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What is a composition?

• A composition is where you put things on a page.
• Composition - The plan, placement or arrangement
  of the elements of art in a work. It is often
  useful to discuss these in reference to the
  principles of design, as well as to the relative
  weight of the composition's parts.
• For example, to give the illusion of space you
  can place things in the foreground, (large object
  at bottom of page, bright colors, sharp details)
  middle ground (medium size in middle) and back
  ground (small and at the top of the page, less
  detail, fuzzy)
• Elements Principles Composition Harmony

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Review How do you make a composition?

• Elements of Art
• Line
• Value
• Texture
• Shape/Form
• Color
• Space

• Principles of Art
• Dominance
• Movement
• Balance
• Rhythm
• Variety

Harmony (Formal Unity)
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Composition 101
These compositions can be turned in any direction.
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• Which
• of the 10
• Classic
• Compositions
• does this
• Painting
• fall under?
• (Hint Turn the worksheet upside down.)

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Which
• of the 10
• Classic
• Compositions
• is this
• Painting
• Most like?
• (Hint Turn the worksheet upside down.)

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• Which
• of the 10
• Classic
• Compositions
• does this
• Painting
• Look like?

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• It is time to visit the wetlands!
• You will need a pencil, a sketchbook,
• the camera and view finder.
• SEE IT! SKETCH IT! SNAP IT!
• First, review how to use
• SEE IT! With the view finder hold it close to
  your face to include more in the picture, rotate
  the view finder, and rotate the camera to the
  same position
• SKETCH IT! In the Sketch book you need paper
  with support to draw outside, take the whole
  book, take a pencil, weather will impact drawing
  time, and you are looking for the compositions
  that we just learned in the natural environment.
• SNAP IT! With the 35mm camera, the strap must be
  around your neck while using the camera, the zoom
  lens, and the shutter button

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Day 2, today we will
• Continue to plan, sketch and photograph our
  compositions in the wetlands
• Create an imaginary character to include in
  our landscape painting
• Next time we will
• View a demonstration of watercolor paint and
  watercolor pencils
• Complete an exercise on watercolor paint and
  pencils

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Henri Rousseau never went to Mexico, but he
  painted landscapes from his imagination of the
  jungles in Central America.
• He used his surroundings to paint but added
  imaginary characters. For example, he added
  people, lions, tigers, monkeys, apes, birds, and
  in some cases monsters.
• He studied the plants and animals from the Paris
  botanical gardens and zoo.
• Now it is your turn to add a character into your
  wetlands landscape!

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Create an imaginary character to include in your
  landscape painting while keeping the composition.
• Some examples, are people, lions, tigers,
  monkeys, apes, birds, monsters, bugs, flowers,
  etc.

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Day 3, today we will
• View a demonstration of watercolor paint and
  watercolor pencils
• Complete an exercise on watercolor paint and
  pencils

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Watercolor exercises
• Wet on Wet
• Wet on Dry
• Lifting
• Glazing
• Charging with paint
• Charging with water
• Bonus use salt and white crayons with any
  watercolor technique
• Next time we will begin our landscapes.

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• Today we will
• View a demonstration on landscape painting
• Use watercolor pencils and white crayons to
  sketch our landscape and our imaginary character
  and then paint with watercolor paints.

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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character
How to paint Landscapes You must stand while
painting. It is best to paint from left to
right (if you are right-handed) Start with a
12x15 piece of watercolor paper. Paint a blue
wash for the sky. Begin at the top of the page
moving the brush from side to side while pulling
the paint down the page, and stopping about 1/3
of the way down Use the watercolor pencils to
draw your sketch onto the paper. Use white
crayons to create a resist for highlights. Use
watercolor paints and water to blend the
watercolor pencils and paint the painting.
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Landscape Painting with an Imaginary Character

• REVIEW Write your answers on paper and turn it
  in
• on the completed work shelf.
• 1. What did you learn about Henri Rousseau?
• 2. What was your favorite part of this lesson?
• 3. What is a composition?
• 4. Name the 10 Classic Compositions.
• 5. What is your favorite watercolor technique?
• 6. Which of the 10 Classic Compositions did you
  use in your landscape watercolor painting?

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Resources

• http//www.colby.edu/museum/payson/activities/k-4/
  rousseau_monkeys_act.html
• http//www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rousseau/
• http//www.artlex.com/ArtLex/N.html