Keystone School's First Grade Projects

Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Montague Dawson Ships at Sea

Red skies at morning, sailors take warning. Red skies at night, sailors delight.
Today and next class period, the First Graders take a look at different seascape paintings by master painters with clipper ships in honor of the Mayflower. Students pick which weather they'd like to depict and paint sky and sea and imagine what a boat would look like in such waters.

Examples of each master painter's ships at sea

Winslow Homer

Edward Hopper

Montague Dawson

Grade Level - First Grade
Duration - One/Two Class Periods
​Media Type - Painting/Pastels

Curriculum Integration
​Subject Integration: Art History: Winslow, Homer, and Dawson. History. Science-Oceanography
Content Standards:
VA.Cr1.1.1a - Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
​VA.Cr1.2.1a - Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
​VA.Cr2r.1.1a  Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design
​VA.Cr.2.2.1a - Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
​VA: Cr2.3.1a - Identify and classify uses of everyday objects through drawings, diagrams, sculptures or other visual means.
VA: Cr3.1.1a - Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.
​VA:Re7.1.1a - Select and describe works of art that illustrate daily life experiences of one's self and others.
VA:Re7.2.1a - Compare images that represent the same subject
​VA:re8.1.1a - Interpret art by categorizing subject matter and identifying the characteristics of form.
​VA:Re9.1.1a - Classify artwork based on different reasons for preferences.
​VA:Pr4.1.1a - Explain why some objects, artifacts and artwork are valued over others.
​VA:Pr5.1.1a - Ask and answer questions such as where, when, why and how artwork should be prepared for presentation.
​VA: Pr6.1.1a - Identify the roles and responsibilities of people who work in and visit museums and other art venues.
​VA:Cn10.1.1a - Identify times, places and reasons by which students make art outside of school.
​VA: Cn11.1.1a Understand that people from different places and times have made art for a variety of reasons.

OBJECTIVE/ASSESSMENT
​OBJECTIVE:
​Students will:
​- discuss Thanksgiving and the pilgrims on the Mayflower.
- discuss where they landed and settled.
- discuss how they traveled from Europe to the new world - Mayflower and what it looked like. What it was made of, what sails are and what they look like, how many sails, masts, building material, etc...
- discuss how water has different appearances (bath, pool, lake, ocean, turbulent ocean), sky (clear, cloudy, storm cloudy)
​RUBRICS:
​Students will be graded by completion.
​MATERIALS & PROCEDURES
Canvas/18 x 24 white/black paper.
Acrylic blue paint
Acrylic gloss medium
Acrylic gel medium
Acrylic Burnt Umber
Acrylic Burnt Sienna
Paint Brush
Pastels
PROCEDURES:
Students participate in a teacher led discussion about the early settlers of our country and how they arrived in the New World. Students are shown many depictions of the Mayflower and other clipper ships. We discuss the term seascape and how a scene can change depending on the weather. Students choose one or two images to use as visual references and create their own seascape mixing blue and white to make light blue for a clear sky. White with gel medium to make clouds.  Blue for the water, touch of blue green. White for the surf. Students determine how the ship is going to be portrayed. Portrait, straight on. From behind.

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