First Grade Farm Landscapes

Wow! These first graders did an amazing job on their farm landscapes. We looked at different paintings of landscapes by Walt Curlee, Andrew Wyeth, Claude Monet, and Vincent Van Gogh. I also talked to students about one-point perspective and how to create the illusion of depth on a flat paper. We first drew our 3-D barns very small on our horizon line on the paper and then created perspective lines reaching from the edge of our paper to the barn. After, we had fun talking about different types of fruits and vegetables that grow on farms and then painted them on our paper.

Here are a few images we used for inspiration

Farm Landscape by Walt Curlee

Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth

And the student artwork below!