Help students analyze one of Emily Carr’s paintings.
Choose either Somberness Sunlit or Tanoo, Queen
Charlotte Islands, or Woo the Monkey from The Picture Gallery. Have the students answer the following questions:

Somberness Sunlit

pdp00633 Somberness Sunlit

• What do you think the title of this painting is?
• In what year do you think Emily Carr created this painting?
• What kind of paint did Emily use?
• Have you ever walked through the woods on a windy day?
• Does this painting give you the feeling of wind through the trees?
• Why do you think Emily chose this title? (What is Somberness?)
• Do you like the way this painting makes you feel?
• Can you draw or paint a picture that expresses a strong feeling that you have?

pdp02145 Tanoo, Queen Charlotte Islands

• What do you think the title of this painting is?
• In what year do you think Emily Carr created this painting?
• Where does this painting take place?
• Why do you think Emily painted this picture?
• Does this painting look like a photograph? Why or Why not?
• What do we call art that looks real (Representational) What do we call art that looks expressed (Impressionism)
• How would do you go about painting totems?
• Where would you go to find totems to paint images of them?
• Can you draw or paint a picture of a totem?

pdp00603 Woo

• What do you think the title of this painting is?
• In what year do you think Emily Carr created this painting?
• What is this painting of? Why was this important to Emily?
• How is this painting different than the images of forests and totems?
• Did Emily paint images of animals?
• Was Emily a young girl or older when she painted this picture? (Use the date of painting)
• Can you paint or draw an animal that you like?