Art After School: Fantasy Lands w/ Nancy Olson

December 5th, Imaginary Space City

Students will use layers of elements create a fantastical scene of a city in space that is surrounded by looming planets in the background and rough, harsh terrain in the foreground. Students will get to create scraped paper for their planets and then add form through simple shading of each sphere. A futuristic city is created with stamping legos and marker caps in a series of towers and buildings. The city is then tucked behind a textured terrain to finish off this cosmic landscape.

December 12th, A Magical Portal

The fantastical landscapes in this lesson are found through a magical portal. Students will use symmetry to cut and draw a magical doorway of their choice, whether it be a wardrobe, stone arch, keyhole or something from their imagination. Then they will think about how to create two contrasting scenes, one on this side of the portal and the other found beyond the threshold. The two papers are connected by paper springs, which give the landscape even more depth and feeling of space.

December 19th, Candy Land

Can you imagine a river of chocolate? Yes, please! How about lollipop flowers and donut mountains? Merge Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with traditional landscape art in this minimal-supply lesson that will have students creating their own delightful fantasy landscape filled with the sweets of their choice. With focuses on line and space, students will first draw one or more focal points to help ground their candy landscape before adding details and bright colors.