Detail from Elle's drawing
The third graders have been learning how to create the illusion of space. Henri Rousseau, a famous French painter, is the artist they studied. Rousseau painted jungle scenes. The students saw how he created a sense of space by adding a lot of plants and other details. Rousseau never went to the jungle, but he went to the zoo in Paris and the Botanical Gardens. It was from these places that he could invent his jungle scenes. Click on his name and you'll see one of his paintings.
Henri Rousseu
This is an interactive link that is fun and exciting. Click on it and you can create your own jungle scene.
http://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/jungle.htm
Here are some examples of the third graders sketches. Later they will add color.
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| Just like Rousseau, Keith likes the "hunt" in the jungle. |
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| Look at Sam's overlapping underwater vines. |
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| This student studied Rousseau's plant. Beautiful shapes and overlapping. |
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| This plant, by Jack, is awesome. |
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| Keely's tree looks great in the foreground. |
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