Use Visual Thinking Strategies to examine the artwork below

Use Visual Thinking Strategies to examine the artwork below

Read Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner

https://goo.gl/t6ghCX

What is the fox doing on this page of Over and Under the Snow?

About Red Foxes in Winter

- Grow thicker coats to stay warm in winter

- Instead of a den, red foxes will curl up in the open. The red foxes wraps its bushy tail around itself to stay warm.

Read a selected poems about winter from Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies

https://goo.gl/sX3lge

Who are the characters in the poems?

What are the poems about?

When do the poems happen?

Where do the poems happen?

How do the pictures help you know more about the poems?

How do you think the pictures in Outside Your Window: A First

Book of Nature were made?

Why do you think this?

The illustrator of Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature is named Mark Hearld. He used

special stamps he made, paint, and colored pencils to make the art.

N.C Wyeth is a famous artist who also illustrated books. He also has artwork of a fox that is in a book.

“Men of Concord” Endpaper IllustrationN.C. Wyeth1935

Winslow Homer is a famous painter. He often painted animals in nature.

Fox HuntWinslow Homer1893

How are these artworks alike? How are they different?

“Men of Concord” Endpaper IllustrationN.C. Wyeth1935

Fox HuntWinslow Homer1893

Fox IllustrationMark Hearld2012

Where you put objects in an artwork gives it depth

Foreground

Middle ground

Background

Where are the background, middle ground, and foreground?

Where are the background, middle ground, and foreground?

Background

Middle ground

Foreground

Using what you know about foreground, middle ground, and background: Create

an artwork of a fox in the snow

You will self-grade your artwork

Is your fox hiding from a another

predator?

Is your fox hunting?

Add any extras you need to tell your story now.

Look at the details of this fox by

Mark Hearld. Did he use 1 color or many colors to

make his fox look furry?

Writing about your artwork

Self grade your artwork