Mary Wallace

• Canadian Artist from Nunavut

• Specializes in painintgs for children’s books

• Focuses on Inuksuks contrasting surreal landscapes

• Intertwines bold colours and shadows

Ted Harrison

• Born in England• Lives in Victoria, BC • Specializes in Canadian landscapes that use bold,

contrasting colours – especially of the yukon• He specializes in Serigraph prints

A Fusion of Artists• We are fusing the artistic styles

of Mary Wallace and Ted Harrison

• We will create bright colourful landscapes where the ice is reflecting colours of the sun, just like Ted Harrison’s landscape paintings

• We will then impose a hand-made Inuksuk over top of our vivid backgrounds to juxtapose the beauty of the arctic, just like Mary Wallace’s paintings

• The end result will be individual paintings that create new concepts of arctic landscapes

The Materials

• Black construction paper• Cardstock/thick white paper for pain• Scissors• Elmer’s glue – any white liquid glue• Pencils for sketching• Water paint

– First, we need to sketch in pencil our background• Focus on separating the colours and imagining either

the ‘Northern Lights’ or sunsets – these are beautiful for when ice reflects the colours

– Next, cover the pencil lines with white liquid glue – After the glue has dried, we will be using paint

(water colour or blocks) to fill in the sections– While our painting is drying, we will cut out our

Inukshuk’s out of black construction paper– After the painting has dried, we will glue our

Inuksuk onto the painting

Instructions

Cross Curricular • Links to grade four social

studies: Northern Canada• Links to Science:

• Focus on ROYGBIV and as many colours that come from that spectrum

• Focus on reflection of light of of surfaces (sunsets, blue skies, Northern Light, mountains, etc.)

• Climates and weather patterns represented in our artwork

• Geology – Rock formations and human manipulation of earth