2nd Grade Chinese Landscapes

2nd Grade Artists have been learning about China. In a previous post, there were pictures of students practicing painting hills showing atmospheric perspective, bamboo stalks, and trees. These pictures show the finished product using all of the skills that 2nd grade artists learned and practiced earlier in the unit. 2nd grade kiddos created Chinese landscapes by using chalk pastels for the mountains. They first made mountain stencils and then brushed the chalk dust off of their stencils to create the shape of the mountains. They made sure to make the farther ones lighter and the closer ones darker showing atmospheric perspective. Then they added bamboo and trees using Chinese painting techniques with bamboo brushes and Chinese inks. They then added a bit of color with the inks. To finish the pieces, they signed their work with a fingerprint in red, the Chinese lucky color. These are really cool!