Step 1 - Introducing the Grant Wood Slideshow Guide

Step 1 - Introducing the Grant Wood Slideshow Guide BEGIN READING HERE MOTIVATION Have you ever been to a dentist. Can you envision the face of your dentist? (YES) Imagine you are in the dentist s chair, leaning back and relaxed, while he/she cleans or examines your teeth. As your mind wanders, you imagine the dentist as a different character. Envision him/her as an Olympic athlete, a rap artist, a break dancer or maybe DEVELOPMENT a famous model! When our artist, Grant Wood, was planning his most famous painting, he needed two people to be models, one woman and one man. He thought for a long time about the faces of all his friends, family, and people in his small town. And guess who he chose as the man to model for his painting? (HIS DENTIST) You are right! But he still was on the lookout for just the right woman to pose with his dentist. Raise your hand if you have a sister. Grant had one sister and of course he knew her face very well. He chose Nan to pose with his dentist friend, Byron. So let s now see a photograph of these two models that Grant Wood chose to pose for his painting. Do you think they ll look happy and excited about being chosen? Take a look. Click Start Lesson To Begin 1. PHOTO OF NAN AND BYRON As you can see, Nan and Byron are far from looking happy! When Grant first asked each of them to pose, they both said No. But he persisted in asking and asking, and finally they agreed. But they had one important request to which Grant had to agree. They wanted him to promise that when he painted their portrait, no one would ever recognize them. They wanted to keep their identities secret from their friends and neighbors. Now you ve seen the people who Grant painted in the foreground of his canvas. Let s discover what he chose to be in the background. In fact, he chose the background even before he selected Nan and Byron, that s how important it was. He drove around his neighborhood until he found a house that really caught his attention. He took this photograph. 1 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

2. PHOTO OF AMERICAN GOTHIC HOUSE Grant Wood said, This house gave me an idea to find two people who, by their severely straight-laced characters, would fit into this home. To make sure he got all the details exactly true, he took a photograph. Mr. Wood used the expression, straight-laced, to refer to the people who would live in that house. To get an idea of how he posed his sister and dentist, pretend you have tightly-pulled laces all around your body from your neck to your waist. Show me how you would sit. (TALL, STRAIGHT, RIGID) Is that how Grant Wood posed Nan and Byron in the foreground of this house? I think it s time we look at the finished painting. 3. AMERICAN GOTHIC This is the very famous painting titled, American Gothic, by Grant Wood. It isn t a large painting, 30 x 25 (DEMONSTRATE APPROXIMATE SIZE WITH YOUR HANDS), but it has had an extremely big impression on the world ever since Grant entered it in a local art contest. It only won third place but was the smash hit of the show. Crowds gathered around it and ignored all the other paintings. Grant Wood became almost an instant celebrity. Let s first focus on the foreground. Do the man and woman look straight-laced? (YES) Would you recognize Nan and Byron, even if they are dressed differently? (YES) So did Mr. Wood follow their request not to paint them so people would recognize them? (NO) He certainly did not! In fact Byron was furious at Wood for breaking that promise. At his dental office people began asking, You re not going to use a pitchfork on me, are you? Do you think Dr. Byron liked that joke? (NO) After that, Grant and Byron s friendship was never quite as warm as it had been. And for several years, Dr. Byron would not admit that he had posed for Grant. Even though he didn t change their faces, he did change many other things in his models. Let s find the changes together. Point to what is different about Nan. (HAIR, CLOTHES, FACE SHAPE) If you are pointing to her hair, clothes, or face shape, you are right. To make sure Nan looked very straight-laced, Grant had her comb her hair straight down toward her ears with a part in the exact center. But do you see a lock of her hair hanging down? (YES) Mr. Wood let that lock escape to show she was, after all, human and not so perfect. He also changed the shape of her face to make it longer and more oval. Can you make a circle with your hands (DEMONSTRATE USING TWO HANDS) Now move your hands to make the circle longer to become an oval. (DEMONSTRATE) He wanted her face to be 2 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

longer like the dentist s long face. Now make a really long oval like the man s face, stretching your hands almost as far as you can! (DEMONSTRATE) Mr. Wood was determined to place their long-lined faces next to the long-lined house. Remember that he selected the house first, and then looked for just the right people to match the house. His dentist naturally had a very long face, and he changed his sister s to match as well. Let s now look at their clothing which he changed from the way they always dressed. Grant spent a lot of time getting each outfit together. He poured over mail order catalogs to find clothes that were typically worn by hardworking Midwestern people. He grew up and lived in Iowa, and these were the type of people he had known most of his life. He wanted to show them as father and daughter, and good, solid, simple people. Where is Iowa? Let s take a look at a map of the United States. 4. MAP OF UNITED STATES Is Iowa about in the middle of the states? (YES) Iowa is very flat and therefore makes good farmland. Grant Wood planned to show the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape and its people. He discovered his own way of painting his surroundings that made him popular and famous. Let s return to American Gothic to find out more about the importance of the house. 5. AMERICAN GOTHIC The original house still stands today. It was built by local carpenters in a style called Gothic. Grant took that word and included it in the title of his painting. When he first saw the real house, he thought it a little strange that such a simple house in Iowa would have such a fancy window, almost like a church. 6. PHOTO OF MILAN CATHEDRAL WINDOW Grant had traveled all over the world and had seen beautiful churches with pointed stained glass windows. When he came across the same style window in a small farmhouse in Iowa, he immediately took a photograph and started planning his painting. 3 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

7. AMERICAN GOTHIC Let s see how he melted the foreground and background together in so many clever ways. See if you find some of the same things I do. Point to where their mouths are shut as tightly as the shades of the porch windows. Good! Can you find where the shape of the large pitchfork held by the father is seen again in the stitching of the father s blue overalls? Excellent! Point to where the small dotted circle pattern and color on Nan s apron is repeated in the Gothic window. Very good searching! Find the vertical stripes on the father s shirt repeated in the boards of the house and the tines of the fork. For our last search, start at the pointed peak of the house and follow the slanted lines of the roof on both sides. Where do they end? (AT THE HEADS) Does that cleverly bring it all together the house, father, and daughter? (YES) Grant Wood grew up on a small farm in Iowa until he was ten years old and moved to town. His farm raised cows, turkeys, ducks, and chickens. He loved all his farm animals like pets. Guess which pets he loved the most? (CHICKENS) He also loved to paint chickens when he grew up. 8. APPRAISAL Here we see his favorite kind of chicken a speckled Plymouth Rock Hen. Can you imagine a wild chicken posing for a painting? (NO) But Grant tried! He let the hen stay in his studio overnight, so she could pose for him during the day. Look at the realistic moon pattern of feathers. Maybe she sat quietly on her nest full of eggs while Grant painted. One of Grant s chores as a boy was to milk the cows. Have you ever milked a cow? 9. BOY MILKING COW Listen to Mr. Wood s memories. I realized that all the really good ideas I d ever had, had come to me while I was milking a cow. So he drew on those good memories with this simple painting. Grant s parents were very poor. They didn t have a telephone, radio, cars, or electricity. Grant entertained himself by drawing all kinds of pictures of the things around him. He used a charred black stick pulled from the cooking stove instead of a store-bought pencil or crayons. He used cardboard torn from cracker boxes instead of store-bought paper. 4 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

He loved to explore the nearby countryside, which perhaps looked like this future painting by Wood. 10. YOUNG CORN Point to the rows of young corn growing in the field. That is the title of this painting, Young Corn. Show me with your fingers how many people are working in the cornfield. (3) Point to the broccoli trees. (ALL) Do you think the trees really looked like this? (NO) Grant chose to make patterns in the trees to decorate this landscape. Grant didn t want to paint this to look like a photo. Anyone can do that, he said. So he thought back to the way he remembered it as a boy. The hills seemed fatter, smoother; the roads curvier; the trees puffier with shapes like cherries and broccoli. That s how he changed it. It isn t quite realistic but not quite abstract. It was a style all his own. Let s now travel forward from young corn growing in the Iowa fields to Fall harvest and plowing the fields. 11. FALL PLOWING Can you find the plow in the foreground? Grant always included old fashioned farm implements rather than more advanced machinery to convey his vision of a simple life. This horse drawn plow makes the parallel lines for planting you see in the two foreground hills. The lines give wonderful texture to the rich, brown soil. Do the hills take up nearly all of his canvas? (YES) The sky is a very narrow rectangle at the very top. Point to the haystack in the middle ground. Look closely. Are all of the haystacks the same size? (NO) That s right. Why not? (SIZE DEPENDS ON LOCATION HAYSTACKS DECREASE IN SIZE AS YOU GO UP ON THE CANVAS) Can you find very, very small haystacks way off in the distance? (YES, ON LAST HILL) They are just dots. By using very large shapes in the foreground, and very small shapes in the background, Grant Wood is showing us perspective. The landscape has depth. We know the house is far away because of its size and placement on the canvas. Your landscapes will also use these same techniques to create perspective. Quickly and silently count how many different patterns you can find in these hills. (ABOUT 7) Let s count them together. (POINT OUT ON SCREEN) Are some hills just smooth textures without patterns? (YES) Do the trees and shrubs have lots of pattern? (YES) 5 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

What colors did he mostly use for Fall Plowing? (BROWN, YELLOW, GREEN) Those are the same colors of nature you will use to make your beautiful Grant Wood landscape. Who is the President of the United States? (CURRENT PRESIDENT) Wouldn t it be exciting if were from (YOUR STATE)? That s what happened to Grant Wood. In 1931 President Herbert Hoover was from Iowa. As an artist Mr. Wood painted the home where President Hoover was born and raised. Will it be grand like the White House or humble like a farmhouse? Let s find out. 12. THE BIRTHPLACE OF HERBERT HOOVER President Hoover s birthplace was not far from the farm where Grant grew up until the age of ten. Who do you think is the tiny figure proudly pointing to the house? (PERHAPS THE ARTIST, SO PROUD OF A FELLOW IOWAN) The humble house is almost lost in the surrounding trees, leaves, and bushes that decorate the landscape. What has Wood included to signify a simple style of life? (HAND WATER PUMP, CLOTHESLINE, CHICKENS, WOODPILE) All the different patterns in the trees create so many textures. Besides living close by, Wood felt connected to President Hoover, because they both grew up as poor farm boys and became famous during the Great Depression. Even though the trees have been abstracted, the shadows are very realistic and lend drama and even more shapes to the composition. When Grant was a small boy living not far from the Hoover house, he had a big imagination. One of his favorite school subjects was United States History, and he turned some of the history lessons into dramas that he acted out. But one of those landed him in deep trouble with his teacher in his one room schoolhouse that looked like this. 13. ARBOR DAY Imagine little Grant charging into this schoolhouse one day yelling excitedly that a cyclone was rapidly coming their way. Everyone was dashing for cover, when the teacher checked outside and saw blue, clear skies like you see in his painting. She quickly realized that Grant s imagination had gone a little too far. His reward was a spanking, in front of all the other children, that he still remembered as an adult. Where did he get such an idea? 6 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

14. THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE His mother had just recently read him the poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. It tells the story of Paul Revere warning the people of Boston and the neighboring towns that British soldiers were coming in one of the first battles of the American Revolution. Now hear a few stanzas of the poem as little Grant did. Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm." Does it seem to you like you have a birds-eye view of this small town? We are looking down so Mr. Wood can show us more of the historical scene. Can you find people just awakened and outside in their nightclothes? How many can you find? (8 OUTSIDE, 1 IN WINDOW) Notice the galloping horse with Paul Revere turning and pointing. Mr. Wood used a lot of props for this painting in his studio. But his studio was certainly not large enough or equipped to pose a horse. So his subtle joke was to use a small rocking horse as his painting prop. Can you see how this horse resembles a rocking horse with all four feet off the ground and extended? Would a real horse gallop like that? (NO) He brought even more drama to the painting with his lighting. Point to where it looks like a spotlight is aimed. (CHURCH) Point to the reflections of the lighted windows. (TWO HOUSES BY CHURCH) Do you see the dim lights of the village from where Paul Revere rode? (TOP RIGHT) Wood s style became well known and very popular for both his portraits and landscapes. But his most popular painting is still American Gothic. This famous painting is often copied in a funny way. Let s enjoy these copies, and then we will meet American master artist, Grant Wood. - 7 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

15. PARODY, Simpsons 16. PARODY, Kermit and Piggy 17. PARODY, Mickey and Minnie 18. GRANT WOOD PHOTO Did you notice he posed in overalls, just like his dentist friend in American Gothic? To make a point that he was an Iowa boy, nearly all his official portrait photos show him wearing overalls. He felt awkward when reporters interviewed him. He was most comfortable when he was painting in his overalls. Mr. Wood was an art teacher off and on throughout his life. Do you think he dressed like a professor in a suit and tie? You are right. He still wore his overalls most of the time! Click next to finish lesson to exit this unit click Back To Units 8 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

Step 2 - Learning From: Grant Wood Grant Wood painted simple, smooth, curving lines To show farmer s fields in lowa. Trace over each line for practice. Start at number 1 in the foreground. Draw your own field and hill lines with 2 foreground fields and 3 background hills. Start in the foreground. Patterns are made when shapes repeat. Grant Wood used shapes found in nature and made them abstract. Leave the sky blank. Grant Wood used shapes found in nature. Decorate these hills with patterns. Fill each hill with one of these repeated shapes. 9 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

Notice how the parallel lines follow the shape of the top line of each hill. Finish two hills with parallel lines. Leave one hill empty. Orchards show pattern with all the same three shapes planted in neat rows. Add some simple trees and straight, vertical trunks to complete this farm orchard. Follow the field lines. 10 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

The last few pages of this section contain the Art Activity for Grant Wood. This step-bystep outline will be a guide for instructing your child(ren) through the activity. The parent/instructor should review all steps necessary to complete this project before beginning any work. Cut out the Artist Profile Slip below and attach it to the back of the completed art project. Grant Wood American 1891-1942 Grant Wood created unique portraits and landscapes inspired by the farms and people of his native Iowa. He decorated his painting with broccoli trees and decorative patterns and textures. ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Perspective in Landscapes MEDIA: Crayons and Tempera Paint in Nature Colors; Round Sponge Brushes, Texture Rubbings Grant Wood American 1891-1942 Grant Wood created unique portraits and landscapes inspired by the farms and people of his native Iowa. He decorated his painting with broccoli trees and decorative patterns and textures. ART ACTIVITY EMPHASIS: Perspective in Landscapes MEDIA: Crayons and Tempera Paint in Nature Colors; Round Sponge Brushes, Texture Rubbings 11 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

Step 3 - Working With: Art Activity Instructions ARTIST GRANT WOOD (1891-1942) American ART ELEMENT Texture, perspective MEDIA Crayon, texture relief, paint VOCABULARY Landscape, pattern, texture, foreground, background, horizon line, perspective, parallel, highlight, shadow, contrast LEVEL Advanced TECHNIQUE Wax rubbing EMPHASIS Perspective with line and shapes PRINT Young Corn SUGGESTED MUSIC Music from the 1900s MATERIALS FOR INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENTS One 9 x 12 sheet of blue construction paper One 9 x 12 sheet of manila construction paper One 12 x 18 or larger sheet of newsprint One paper plate One paper towel Artist Profile Slip 1 baggie per student each containing: 1 green crayon, 1 brown crayon, 1 yellow crayon, 1 net texture and 1 corrugated paper texture Green, brown, and yellow liquid tempera paint (On each paper plate add a quarter-size dot of green paint and a dime-size dot of each of the yellow and brown paints.) One large round sponge spouncers (applicators) One small round sponge spouncers (applicators) Masking tape, scissors, glue (instructor only) Scissors, Glue Completed Learning Packet PREPARATION Place the Grant Wood print in front of the room. Tape the 9 x 12 piece of manila paper, horizontally to the board for students to see. Have scissors, glue, tape, paper plate with three paint colors, small and large round sponge applicators, three crayons, and two texture sheets close by. Set aside the blue paper. 12 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

SET-UP [ 5 minutes ] Distribute the materials: SUPPLIES: [3-4] Texture/crayon baggie kit, large sponge applicator, small sponge applicator PAPER: [4] 9 x 12 blue construction paper, 9 x 12 manila construction paper, newsprint, and artist profile slip Instructor will pass out one paper plate with green, brown and yellow paint after the students cut and glue fields to the sky and mount artist profile slip. ORIENTATION [ 2 minutes ] Where did Grant Wood live? (MIDWEST, IOWA) Please describe the type of landscape that surrounded him while he was growing up. (FARMS, SMALL TOWNS, ROLLING HILLS, ETC.) Today you will work with textures and patterns to create a typical Iowan landscape, much like Mr. Wood s paintings. Do you remember the broccoli trees? ORGANIZING YOUR MATERIALS AND WORK AREA [ 3 minutes ] 1.Place newsprint on center of your desk. 2.Place the manila paper horizontally on the newsprint. 3.Place your blue paper at one corner of your desk. 4.Put large and small round sponge applicators on the paper towel at the other corner of your desk 5.Put your scissors, Learning Packet, and artist profile slip on the blue paper. 6.Place the baggie with crayons and texture sheets at the top center of your desk. DEMONSTRATION/ACTIVITY Have the students repeat each step after you demonstrate it. Play the music while they are drawing. Stop the music for the demonstration. DRAWING THE FIELDS AND HORIZON LINE [ 5 minutes ] 1.On the manila paper, one to two fingers up from the bottom, use a dark crayon to place a small dot on each side of the paper. Draw a gently and slightly curved field line across the paper. 2.Two to three fingers above the first line, draw a second gently, smooth and slightly curved field line. Make it different from the first line. 3.Place dots on both sides of the manila paper, one finger down from the top. The sky will be very small. Imagine a line in the center of the paper that divides the paper in half vertically. 13 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

4.From one side, draw a curving hill line from the dot, across the imaginary center line and connect with the top field line. From the opposite side, draw a curving hill line to intersect the hill line you just drew. 5.Draw a small curved hill that connects the two hill lines in the background. 6.Divide one of the larger background areas into two areas using a curved line. COLOR THE FIELDS [ 4 minutes ] 1.The space above the horizon line will be the sky. Leave it blank, as we will cut it off later. 2.Using all crayon colors (brown, green, and yellow), lightly color the field areas, choosing one color for each field. We will not use the tip of our crayons, as we usually do when coloring. Place your crayons flat on your desk. Now pick them up in that same position (demonstrate). We will color with the side of the crayon only, not with the top or tip. You may want to break the crayon in two to make it fit better within your fields. You may leave one field blank. 3.Put the manila paper aside. ADDING TEXTURE TO THE FIELDS [ 8 minutes ] 1.Place texture pieces under your newsprint (one at a time), and practice coloring your field textures. With the side of the crayon lightly rub on the newsprint over the texture to create a field pattern. Try many color and texture combinations. It is desirable to make the background color different from the texture color for contrast (i.e. - brown texture over green background, brown and green texture over yellow background ). 2.Now place a texture under a field area on the manila paper and rub with the side of a crayon to create a field pattern. Fill five of the six agricultural fields with different textures. 14 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

DRAWING THE CROP AND ORCHARD LINES [ 5 minutes ] 1.Draw crop field lines in the two foreground areas, using curved parallel lines. Keep the lines evenly spaced and curved, so it appears that they are coming from over the hill. The lines can come from opposite directions as in (1b.). 2.Choose a small side area in the background to be an orchard but not your smallest area. Using one of the dark crayons, draw curved, orchard planting lines in that area (2a.). Example 2b. shows the orchard lines doubled. Do not add more patterns to this field. It will become our tree orchard later. AGRICULTURAL PATTERNS [ 5 minutes ] 1.Refer to the patterns drawn in the Learning Pages, and have the students use one of the crayons to draw agricultural patterns in at least two of the sections. To show perspective, patterns will be larger at the bottom of the section to look closer, and the patterns will grow smaller as they are drawn higher on the paper, so that they will look farther away. 2.Students should use a dark crayon heavily to go over field and hill lines for emphasis and separation of areas. 15 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

CUT AND GLUE THE FIELDS TO THE SKY [ 3 minutes ] 1.Students should cut along the horizon line to cut off the blank sky part of the manila paper. 2.Carefully glue all around the edges of the back of the manila paper, and attach it to the blue paper, matching the bottom edges. 3.It is important that the horizon line be sealed well against the blue paper. MOUNTING THE ARTIST PROFILE SLIP [ 2 minutes ] (Profile slips for each artist are provided. They give a brief description of the artist, the technique, and the media used in the art activity. They should be mounted on the back of each art project after it is completed.) 1.Write your name and room number on the front of the artist profile slip. 2.Using glue, mount the profile slip on the back of your artwork. 3.Encourage students to discuss their artwork at home using this artist slip of information. CREATING THE BROCCOLI TREE [ 5 minutes ] 1.Using the large sponge applicator, a tree will be painted on the side opposite the orchard. 2.Use the tip of the brown and green crayons to draw the trunk. The trunk bottom should be three to four fingers above the bottom of the paper. Draw the trunk bottom in one of the foreground fields opposite the orchard. The trunk should be a little wider at the ground and have an uneven bottom. The tree trunk grows straight up the paper about as long as your pointer finger. Apply the crayon heavily to place it in the foreground. 3.Students should have a small paper plate with a double quarter-size dot of green tempera paint, a dime-size dot of yellow tempera paint, and a dime-size dot of brown tempera paint. 4.Loading the round sponge applicator with paint: Dab the flat end of the sponge applicator into the green paint. Twist, lift, and dab it on a clean part of the plate. By tipping the applicator, dip one edge of the sponge into the yellow paint and the opposite edge lightly into the brown paint. The yellow edge should be the highlight and towards the top of the circle. The brown edge will be the shadow and towards the bottom part of the circle. 5.On the newsprint, practice a few round broccoli tree shapes. With yellow edge at the top, place the sponge flat paint side down on the newsprint. Press down, twist half way, and lift up. Be sure to hold the paper down with your other hand when making shapes. Only press down once. Do not go over your shape. Practice making shapes as round as possible. You should be able to make several broccoli tree shapes without reloading the sponge with more paint. 16 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

6.The treetop will end up about as big as the student s hand. Plan where the top of the tree should break the horizon line on the manila paper. 7.For the manila paper, reload the sponge applicator (see 3. above), using all three colors. Place the sponge flat side down at the top of the trunk with yellow edge up. Press down, twist half way, and lift up. 8.Reloading the applicator when necessary, place other round broccoli tree shapes just touching your first treetop shape and radiate out and up until the treetop is filled (about 8 to 14 circles). 9.To clean the spouncers, have students gently dab all paint left on the large sponge applicators onto the newsprint. Set the sponge applicator aside on the paper towel to be collected and put back into the instructor tote. The sponge applicators should not be washed, as the handles might separate from the sponges. PAINTING THE ORCHARD [ 3 minutes ] 1.Using the small sponge applicator, you will now paint trees in the orchard area,. Apply paint to the small sponge applicator as you did in step 4 above, Loading the round sponge applicator with paint. Following your parallel planting lines, paint the orchard with single circle treetops. Treetops may cross the horizon line. 2.Pick up the paper plates and dispose. 3.For cleaning, have students gently dab all paint left on the small sponge applicators onto the newsprint. Set sponge applicator aside on the paper towel to be collected and put back into the instructor tote. The sponge applicators should not be washed, as the handles might separate from the sponges. 17 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition

TREE TRUNKS [ 2 minutes ] Use the brown crayon to draw the tree trunks in the orchard. Tree trunks will be small, vertical and simple. CONCLUSION If we put all of your beautiful landscapes together, they would show how Grant Wood painted his beloved Iowa with its patterned and textured gently rolling hills. I hope you enjoyed your new way of texturing and will use that fun process again. Just look around your house, especially your kitchen and garage, for interesting textures to put under your paper. THIS CONCLUDES THE GRANT WOOD UNIT. 18 GRANT WOOD Ages 10 Adult MeetTheMasters Online Edition