More Monet paintings

After a week or two of mishaps in getting our final Monet paintings done we have finally completed them this week, whew... I really like the idea that I found on The Crafty Classroom. I had each of the children find a painting of the Japanese bridge that Claude Monet has done on the web and I printed out the picture. Using these paintings as our inspiration we got to work...


Again we started out with our paint pallet. Using only primary colors, white, a tiny bit of black and brown.




















We taped of a portion of the picture that would be our bridge
















Using our Monet picture as inspiration began to paint...
















Once the paint drys we removed the tape












Little man's results..he found it to hard to use Monet's picture so he did his own version of the Japanese bridge. Less black paint was used this time around, YAY!!!
















I thought Princess did a great job following Monet's style in this blue painting of the Japanese bridge.
















My results showing my Monet picture in the corner which was my inspiration. I decided I didn't like the white bridge so .....











Can't decide if I added to the painting or distracted from it. Oh well...












I know doing these exercises demonstrated to me that impressionist really were skilled artist as it is much harder than it appears to recreate art using only the basic colors and dots and lines.
To see our other Monet painting go here