3 Painting the Earth

• Mountains, valleys, forests, deserts, rivers and oceans all contribute to the topography of the Earth and help create wonderful landscapes interpreted in the work of a great many artists. • If you were a bird and could !y around the Earth, you would see how it is covered in a huge variety of forms, colours and textures. You would also surely be struck by its incredible beauty!

Getting started: explore and reflect.

Winter Timber (2009). The challenge

The Road across the Wolds (1997). Over the next few pages, you are going to travel around the ASK

T world, exploring its furthest corners, all thanks to Google Earth. D You are going to learn to look at the environment from a range of TE viewpoints and to select the best frames. And soon, you will be GRA able to paint landscapes as interesting as those depicted by this TE

IN great artist:

The investigation The Road to York through Sledmere (1997). Discover the most beautiful places on planet Earth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM Teamwork

Let’s get together and explore the four corners of the world in — Check out the diversity of forms created order to create a visual catalogue of its best landscapes: by the topography, the colours of the vegetation, contrasting light… 1. Choose your destination and !y there on Google Earth. 2. Analyze your landscape: colours, forms, textures… and make your own interpretation. 3. Exhibit your work and recount your journey to the rest of the group.

49 UNDERSTANDING Landscape in art

Many artists are fascinated by landscape. One of them is David Hockney. He paints large scale works like the ones shown on this page. He used sixty canvases when painting A Bigger , which he joined together like a jigsaw puzzle. The work in its entirety is nearly 3 metres wide by 1 metre tall.

The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate (2011).

A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). 50 David Hockney (1937) http://www.hockneypictures.com/works_paintings.php

He is one of the most in!uential artists of the 20th century. • When you take a look at the work of David Hockney, you will see Despite being a !gurative artist, Hockney does not that as well as using a lots of different techniques, he also paints represent reality photographically. He observes and a wide variety of topics. Which have surprised you the most? interprets the environment in his own way by synthesizing forms and changing the colours to achieve more expressive results. Start painting like David Hockney. Throughout his career, he has experimented with numerous — Use these four canvases! techniques: traditional ones like water colour and oil painting, and more revolutionary approaches such as photo-collages and using his iPad.

Pearblossom Highway (1986).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jabJKtqK0k

51 DISCOVERING Aerial views

Hockney interprets landscapes from a bird’s eye view. Cultivated !elds are patches of colour The grass is painted with marked out by a maze of lines. short slanted strokes.

Plough furrows are depicted as parallel lines.

Aerial viewpoints give us a panoramic view of landscapes. Hills and mountains look smaller, and the patchwork of cultivated !elds looks like a giant tapestry made from strips of clothing.

52 Take a look at these aerial views of aquatic landscapes.

— Represent one of them using patches of colour, lines and brushstrokes.

53 is the au Who thor of ing? DRAWING Landscapes each draw

In order to draw landscapes, it is very important to choose the viewpoint and the frame you want for the scene. It will be very useful to use different types of bases: landscape, portrait, square, etc. 54 CUT OUT page 57

Draw a landscape you are familiar with on the previous page. First decide on the format you want to use.

drawing out our and s t y tick it Cu to this space.

57 EXPERIMENTING Crayons and watercolours

1. Sketch the outline of the composition. 2. Paint with crayons: the furrows of the !elds, the leaves, the track…

3. Go over with water colours or diluted tempera paint.

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You can create very colourful landscapes using crayons and water colours. Be adventurous and experiment with this technique, and then set up an exhibition of everybody’s work.

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Lucía 61 Meet the challenge ASK T It’s all about travel! D TE

GRA Did you know you don’t have to get on a plane to

TE travel around planet Earth? You don’t even have IN to pack any bags or put your shoes on… You can try for yourself on these pages.

1. Download the Google Earth application 2. Choose the place you would most like to to your computer. visit. You can have a look at these links to help you make a good choice:

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/landscapes/ http://www.mundo-geo.es/naturaleza/paisajes 62 CUT OUT page 65

3. Start the programme 4. With Google Earth, you’ll arrive at your There are different layers of information and write the name destination in the blink of an eye. and photos of places of interest. of your destination.

now… yo nd u c A an b y! egin your journe

— Discover the most amazing places in the world, and recreate them in art using all your talent.

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