This week I decided that we needed to take a closer look at Monet's work, so I found two new projects online for the kids to try. After discussing each project and the artwork that it is based on, they were able to choose one project to do today and one to do later in the week. But, they were both so quick and fun that all the kids decided to do both projects in class today. The first project was based on Monet's famous Water-Lilies painting from 1914.
First the kids used yellow oil pastels to draw several lilies of different sizes on their watercolor paper. The lilies are basically a simple tulip shape, or a "W" with a curved, filled in bottom. They highlighted each tulip with peach and pink oil pastel to create the center of the flower.
Next they added green ovals under the bottom of each lily and white waves across the paper to
represent ripples in the water.
After the drawing was complete they used watercolors to paint a wash of blues and greens across the entire paper, allowing the oil pastels to resist the paint.
For a final touch of our own, we sprinkled the watercolors with sea salt while they were still wet,
giving it a blurry effect.
Here are the finished water-lilies.....
The second project was based on another Monet water lily painting, Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge 1899 and was inspired by this post at KinderArt.
They used watered down tempera paints: green, blue, red and yellow to create the background (sky, water, plants and flowers) by using balled up paper towels and dabbing the paint randomly on the watercolor paper until it was filled with colors.
Then the kids used white oil pastels to create a bridge outline. Two simple curved lines and some vertical lines attaching them- colored heavily.
Here's how they turned out:
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