Sunset Scenes with Grade Two

Second grade students are currently working on finishing a sunset landscape demonstrating their knowledge of the warm/hot colors. Students explored the wash technique for painting their backgrounds using red, yellow, and orange and then observed photos of sunsets before creating their own landscape. Students noticed that as the sun begins to set, the objects in the landscape appear almost like a shadow of black as the light is no longer on the houses and trees, but behind them. Each landscape is unique to the child as they created and placed elements of a landscape independently. Beautiful work, students!