Castle Landscapes

Our second and third grade students learned the concept of a foreground, middleground and background in landscape art with this project designed around a favorite subject of children – castles!

Together we discussed the basic parts of a castle, which the children drew in white oil pastel on black construction paper. Using small cut sponges dipped in silver tempera paint, they created a stone or brick façade for their structures. After the castles dried they were cut out and mounted on white paper, and environments were created with a foreground, middleground and background. Moats, knights, mountains and princesses were added according to each artist’s desire and cut paper was used for flags, doors and windows. A very engaging project; take a look at the results! Click on any castle to get to the gallery.