Background and Horizon Line

Students learned where a horizon line in a picture/landscape falls. (Where the sky and the ground meet are the words I used to describe horizon line) students looked at various landscapes and we discussed how objects in the background of a picture get smaller because they are far away, behind another object or in the back of the picture. 

Students drew a horizon line on their paper and painted by practicing the correct way to hold a paintbrush and take care of the brush by noticing when it started to get dry and needing a "drink" of paint.