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Treehouse Story World — Grade 5
Make a colorful environment painting featuring platforms, bridges, trees, and tiny story clues for a chosen audience, with ethical inspiration notes, iterations, and an artist statement. Use the example for ideas, but choose your own subject, colors, arrangement, and details.
Study the example for possibilities, then close or cover it. Your work should make different choices.
What to do
- Make your own version of “Treehouse Story World”. Keep the subject in the title, but invent the design and story details.
- Your core skill today: Select and refine a color or mark strategy for an intended mood.
- Choose who could travel here and what they need to find. Sketch a large foreground shape, a middle path, and a distant shape.
- Place the horizon and the largest building or land shape first. Make distant shapes smaller and less detailed.
- Add one focal point and two clues to the imagined story. Paint or color large areas before windows, plants, and texture.
- Check whether a viewer can locate the path and focal point. Adjust one overlap or contrast, then finish details.
- Name one change that made the result clearer. Label or dictate your name and title, share the work, and clean the tools.
My project: I am making a colorful environment painting featuring platforms, bridges, trees, and tiny story clues for a chosen audience, with ethical inspiration notes, iterations, and an artist statement. Draw or write your idea.
My choices: Circle or write the colors and materials you will use.
My plan: Draw the big shapes or main parts and show where they will go.
My first step: What will you make first?
Halfway check: What part needs to be added, moved, fixed, or made stronger?
Finish check: Are the main idea, important details, and connections complete?
Share: One choice I made was… One change I made was…
Skill evidence: Select and refine a color or mark strategy for an intended mood. Show your test and explain what you chose; speaking or dictation is welcome.
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