Nature's Beauty: Observing Nature Up Close

Create

1. Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

B. Investigation

Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.

Today we will learn to look carefully at flowers and leaves to discover the beautiful details in the natural world.

During this week, you can look for other natural objects that you might like to observe closely and draw.

Have you ever looked at a flower up close?

What did you notice that you didn't see from far away?

Here is a painting from far away of a field of poppies

Here is a painting close up of a single poppy

Do you think this artist could paint this flower from memory? 

Or would the artist need to see the flower in real life?

This artist, Georgia O'Keefe would study flowers in real life so she could notice all the lines, shapes and colors.

Some artists like to observe nature from a distance, far away

Some artists like to observe nature up close

Which way do you like to observe nature?

Design a Balloon

 

Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
Balloon Design

(A lesson for the short week before Thanksgiving)

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Beauty in Architecture

A Building is Beautiful

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How do places (buildings) shape lives and communities? How do artists effectively communicate their place?

When we look at a beautiful building, we experience that WOW feeling that we get when we look at something beautiful in nature. 

Video Lesson:

Beauty in Nature-Trees

 A Tree is Beautiful

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People find beauty in nature. This mini lesson is about observing trees, and noticing changes throughout the seasons, and through the eyes of an artist.  When you make your art, how can you express that beauty?