This activity also might serve as one part of the evaluation of student progress. Distribute materials for painting with opaque medium. Consider the differences between opaque and transparent mediums. If time permits, the following quotations could be used as inspiration for Western landscapes. After having spent years in striving to be accurate, we must spend as many more in discovering when and how to be inaccurate.
Art is a harmony parallel to nature.
George Santayana Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Winter Landscape in Moonlight , The Detroit Institute of Arts.