The Gulf Stream, 1899Winslow Homer (1836–1910)

Oil on canvas; 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in.

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Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910) Nassau, 1899Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Winslow Homer

Art in the Classroom

Ms Freeman’s class March 2007

Winslow Homer AmericanCasting, Number Two, 1894

watercolor over graphiteNational Gallery of Art

• Born in1836 in Boston, Massachusetts in the USA

• Middle child

• Painter, journalist and illustrator

• Visited the front during the Civil War

• Traveled to Europe

• One of the first artists to paint and sell watercolors

• Famous for watercolor and oil paintings

Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer• Landscape

– A picture depicting an expanse of scenery

Winslow Homer Burnt Mountain , 1902

watercolor and graphite on wove paper

Winslow Homer• Horizon

– Where the earth meets the sky

Gloucester, Mackerel Fleet at DawnFormer Title: Prout's Neck, Mackerel Fleet at Dawn 1884

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–19101995.76739.69 x 95.88 cm (15 5/8 x 37 3/4 in.)

Oil on panel, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Sky

Earth (water)

Winslow Homer• Perspective

– The appearance of objects in depth – Technique of representing three-dimensional objects and

depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface

Boys in a Pasture 1874Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

40.32 x 58.1 cm (15 7/8 x 22 7/8 in.)Oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Homer – watercolor paintings• Used watercolors for perspective

– Some things look far away, others look close• Bright colors to make things appear near• Faded colors to make things look far away

Winslow HomerIncoming Tide, Scarboro, Maine, 1883

The National Gallery of Art

Winslow HomerThe Coming Storm, 1901

The National Gallery of Art

• Bigger things appear near• Smaller things appear far away

• Bottom of picture appears near• Top appears far away

Homer – watercolor paintings

Winslow HomerSantiago de Cuba, 1885

The National Gallery of Art

HorizonPerspective

Bright or faded colorsBigger or smallerBottom or top of picture

Rocky Coast and Gulls 1869Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910

41.27 x 71.44 cm (16 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.)Oil on canvas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

HorizonPerspective

Bright or faded colorsBigger or smallerBottom or top of picture

WINSLOW HOMER (1836–1910) Rowing Home, 1890

WatercolorThe Phillips Collection

HorizonPerspective

Bright or faded colorsBigger or smallerBottom or top of picture

•Create a mountain lake scene using watercolor

Art in the Classroom: Homer Activity

•Create a mountain lake scene using watercolor

• Draw a pencil line across the upper third of the paper to represent the horizon, where land and water meet the sky

• Wet the paper (see Ms Freeman or Juliana’s mom or dad)• Mix the paint for the land, mix bright green paint with water on a plate and

paint the bottom third of the paper = grass• Mix the paint for the trees, mix water into the bright green color to dull the

color and paint some trees or bushes above the grass• Mix paint for the lake, rinse the brush and mix blue for the lake behind the

trees up to the pencil line (the horizon). Leave some white spaces/stripes in the lake to look like reflections in the water

• Mix the blue with water to make it weaker (pale blue) for the sky. Paint the entire sky leaving some white areas for clouds

• Mix a pale green blue for the mountains and paint mountains at the horizon of the lake and into the sky.

• Let it dry• Outline the lakeshore, trees, hills and mountain shapes with black felt pen

Art in the Classroom: Homer Activity