Hi, I'm Trisha Fuglestad. Let's do a landscape project with Sketchbook Express.
I'm going to start a new project, so I hit the plus, and I'm going to take a look at the layers to get started.
I need to pay attention to the layers. I'm going to start with the background.
Sketchbook Express allows you to draw with a free hand line, or you could take some of these other shapes.
So I was thinking that this could be a project where we teach children to make a landscape out of shapes.
So I'm going to start with a shape for the sky, which would be a large rectangle, and the bottom of that shape will become the horizon line.
And I should be able to fill that with color as if it were a closed shape.
I'm going to assign the secondary colors to the background layer for my students so that we can think about secondary colors as we work.
So I'm going to flood fill the sky. That's supposed to be a purple. It looks a little bit blue on your screen.
And then I'm going to see if I could flood fill the lower part with green. There we go.
So now I have two secondary colors. I'm going to need my last secondary color to be orange.
Let's see if we could start with the black outline though. There we go.
So I'm going to choose the circle, and then I'm going to drag out a circle in the sky.
I'm going to flood fill it with orange. So I chose the bucket. Touch inside. Whoops.
Most of still have been black. I'm going to undo. There's my orange. There we go.
Alright, so now I have my secondary colors and the background.
I am going to do a new layer. So I go to my layers and hit plus.
On this layer I'm going to think about primary colors and the shapes that make a house.
So I'm going to go to the black again because I'm going to black outline on everything.
So I'm going to choose a square and make the starting shape of my house.
Now I'm on a different layer. So even though you see overlapping and overlapping is a really good concept,
it's not going to stay that way after I flood it with color.
I'm going to see if I can do a straight line that goes from the corners up and makes the roof.
Whoops, I didn't touch. Here's the tricky part. You really need to have closed shapes
if you're going to flood fill your colors.
And I'm going to go back to those rectangles and make a door, a couple squares.
Now all that overlapping might really disturb your young students, but remind them.
We're on a whole different layer and it's going to be okay.
So you might even want to get a little fancy here with a roof.
Chimney, I mean. Oh, I'm a little crooked.
You know, you can be a lot more accurate when you use your two fingers and you zoom in.
Okay, and it's always better to hit undo if you don't like your lines.
Do you see how I have overlapping shoes with those lines? Let's see if I can do it.
Because trying to freehand a race is possible, but it's a little bit harder.
Okay, I think I'm good with those.
Now, oops, did you see I had that last little, there we go.
I'm on the second layer. I'm going to flood fill now. So I'm going to choose my primary colors.
So I have a red. I'm going to do red brick.
I'm going to have blue. Oh, you know what? Red brick should have been the chimney also.
So let me show you how to get a color that you used to have back.
This right here is a button that brings up more tools.
And you see the eyedropper tool? The eyedropper tool gives you the crosshairs.
So now I'm back to that red. I'm on my bucket. So I'm going to touch in here. We're good now.
And I'm going to red yellow. Find a spot for yellow. Yellow is going to be in the windows.
And then my last color is blue for primary colors. So let's do the door, the roof, and this is little.
So I'm going to zoom in and get it just right.
Okay, so now it's time for my details. I'm going to add a whole another layer.
My details, that way, when I make a mistake on this layer, it's not going to affect the other layers if I need to erase it.
So I'm on my paintbrush. I'm black. This is when I'm going to start adding visual texture.
So so far we were able to talk about making a landscape with a horizon line. There's overlapping. The landscape is made out of shapes.
So you're viewing shapes. You use primary and secondary colors.
And now we can go through on this third layer and add visual texture.
So let's go back. I want to save this and take a look at what this turns out. It could turn out to be.
So in this picture, I went and got a little fancier on my background by dividing it into more shapes.
And actually I could show you that when I x these out so you can get a better peak now at what my background layer looked like.
And then I'll reveal this layer, still the shapes, but then this layer was on my visual texture.
So hopefully you can see how this project can turn into a very meaningful lesson for your students. Thank you.
