Friday 10 February 2012

Art Lesson - -Claude Monet

For the last several weeks we have been learning about Claude Monet. First, we began with reviewing the lesson on Meet the Masters which is a online art program. Next we read the book Getting to know the world's greatest artists by Mike Venezia. I found a great book at our library called Linnia in Monet's Garden by Cristina Bjork. It is excellent and I highly recommend it.

Then the kids and I completed the art assignments. First we identified the color wheel. My kids have already done this so it was easy for them. We identified primary, secondary and tertiary colors.







































Next we started on the main art project assignment


Each of us cut out a stencil of a vase and lined it up on our canvas.













Then using q-tips we began to add dots of color to fill in the entire stencil.

















Next the children added leaves and flowers to the vase. Our paint palette only included the primary colors, white, brown and a tiny bit of black. The purpose was to mix colors just like Claude Monet would have done to get the right color.









In order to get the color green the children had to mix it, while I encouraged the kids to do their mixing on their palette they preferred to do it on their canvas, which meant no room for errors.













The finished art work...Ta da....

Little Man's he has titled it "Sprout at night" While I kept telling little man black was used very sparingly in Impressionist art he insisted on using it... and lots of it:)



















Princess's picture


















My attempt, not sure why I chose a pink vase with orange flowers.
















I had a second Monet art project that I wanted us to do but after nearly a week of mishaps I have yet to get it accomplished. I am hoping we will do it soon. However check out The Crafty Classroom for this great and easy Monet style of the Japanese bridge.

21 comments:

  1. This is awesome! Thank you so much for linking up! I "pinned" it on our Pinterest board.

    So funny, honestly, I am doing art more now because of Pinterest and yesterday we did art and then I was looking at these books by Mike Venezia and put two on hold at the library!!!

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    1. The Mike Venezia books are great he also has a composer and president series that are pretty good:)

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  2. What beautiful pictures! Will they get them framed?

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    1. I should but in our tiny rental house there is no where to put them. I am for now keeping them in a box and maybe we can hang them up when we return to our own house in 2 years.:)

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  3. Tell those sweet children and yourself; that I thought the pictures were awesome. Again, you amaze me with all of your creative home school projects.
    Blessing to you for a great job on teaching your children.

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      You are always so sweet and encouraging...can you adopt me:)

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  4. Love it! You guys put a lot of work into that and it shows. Gohan is really into black also, must be a boy thing.

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    1. I think every kid goes thru the black stage but it seems to have hit little man a bit early:)

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  5. What a magnificent lesson! We have been learning about Claude Monet, too.

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    1. I will be over to check out your progress with Monet, I love his art but recreating it was much harder than I thought it would be

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  6. So beautiful and creative! All the colors look great (even the black) :) You are the kids are very artistic for sure! :) Clicked a vote for you! :)

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  7. Once again it looks like you've had a lot of fun learning!

    Keep it coming!

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  8. The Getting to Know series and Linnea in Monet's Garden are great books! This is a very nice project...good job!
    Thanks for linking up with "Look! What We Did!" :)

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  9. Great idea!thx for sharing :-)

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  10. This is great! We were just talking at/looking at Monet's work when we came across a puzzle yesterday. Thanks for sharing!

    I've nenver looked at Meet the Masters, either....maybe I should.

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  11. Wow! Those are nice! Thanks for sharing with Brag Time Thursday!

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  12. what a great idea - I never would of thougth of the stencil or making them mix the colours on the paper :)

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  13. Amazing pictures. Amazing lesson! Why wasn't my school life like your kids'? So clever and resourceful. And interesting! Wow!

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  14. I LOVE art projects and this looks like a great way to expose your children to a master. Thanks for sharing the idea! Smiles -

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