2/13/22

Art Lesson: Fantasy Landscapes with Alien Trees (MS)

Lesson for 7th grade 

Students started by copying <trees> by Brayden Barrett. Next, they spent a couple days learning basic linear perspective with draw-alongs (they didn't have to use perspective in this project, but these exercises taught them about using a horizon and how to place items at varying distances on a ground plane). Third, they made thumbnails of their alien trees planted into alien landscapes (swamps, volcanic terrain, canyons, floating islands, etc). 

(Sample of Barrett's trees)

While making thumbnails, they took a day to play with dzine.ai, and to AI-generate some reference photos for their proposed scene.

Using their AI refs, their Brayden Barrett refs, and their thumbnails, each student began an A3 watercolor using a limited palette (their choice of one of the below color schemes):



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