Romantic Landscape Drawings

Medium: Chalk Pastel

Size: 18 x 24 inches

Preliminary: View paintings by Romantic Landscape Artists: Casper David Friedrich, Thomas Cole, J.M.W.Turner

Assignment: Your assignment is to create a Romantic landscape using chalk pastel. You will employ the technique of atmospheric perspective to create a distinct foreground, middle ground, and background in your drawing. What happens to objects as they move further away in space?

Find a photo source of a landscape image, or look outside. Begin by creating a minimum of 3-4 thumbnail sketches in your sketchbook to plan your composition.

Vocabuary:

Romanticism: a late 18^th through early 19^th century art movement that moved away from the formal qualities of Neoclassicism and celebrated emotions and the imagination. Romantic painters were drawn to the awe-inspiring qualities of the landscape. They often painted dramatic scenes of nature in an untamed state.

Sublime: A concept, thing or state of exceptional and awe-inspiring beauty and moral or intellectual expression — a goal to which many nineteenth-century artists aspired in their artworks. Noble, majestic. (source:www.artlex.com)

Atmospheric Perspective(or Ariel Perspective):  The illusion of depth in a composition created by changing objects’ size, value, intensity of color, and level of detail.

Rubric:

Is the drawing neat and well crafted?

Is the drawing complete?

Does the drawing display an understanding of atmospheric perspective?

Does the drawing display a distinct foreground, middle ground, and background?