1. Unit 5: Stories of the Earth and Sky
Featuring artwork from:
John Constable, Hampstead Heath, Looking Towards Harrow at Sunset (1823)
Jean-François Millet, Landscape with a Peasant Women (early 1870s)
Alfred Stieglitz, Equivalents (1923)
Vija Celmins, Untitled #3 (Comet) (1996)

2. Which work is a photograph and which one a drawing
Which work is a photograph and which one a drawing. What is happening in each image of the sky? Is one more mysterious than the other?
Photo
Drawing

3. What time of day do you think it is? Can anyone point out the horizon?
Notice both artist included the earth and sky and in both of these paintings.
What different choices did each painter make to distinguish between the earth and sky, land and air—colors, textures, light?
What time of day do you think it is? Can anyone point out the horizon?

4. Todays Art Lesson
Students must use time wisely, use materials correctly, follow directions for this to turn out correctly.
Volunteers will demonstrate color mixing with class.
Students will paint their nights sky.
Then add a cityscape and lights with construction paper and crayons