It has been a real treat to teach the kiddos about Monet and his garden at Giverny. I think the "Creative Kids" and I are ready to buy our tickets to France to see Monet's garden for ourselves!!!
We recreated the lily pond with the Japanese foot bridge painting that Monet painted many times himself. We used watercolor paint, salt, pastels and tempera paint all in this 1 painting and used brushes, sponges and q-tips to create the different effects. Our study about Monet and his garden was largely based on reflection. We created a "mirror" water lily pond to show the kids how everything around the mirror pond reflected in it... trees, sky, the bridge, flowers...
To finish our study on relection we worked on drawing what we saw when we looked into a hand mirror! *OURSELVES* The kids worked hard and one class even managed to find a little time at the end of class to make *April Fools* glasses.
Tween class worked on a "Favorite Song Collage". We had a lot of fun putting these together. This group of girls even helped me decorate a stool I use in the studio. We have big plans for other ways we can spruce up the studio!
Adults have been painting scenes from Italy most of the month... Sunflowers... A Tuscan Castle... Fields of Gold... and an Italian village scene! We are going to be taking 2 weeks off for spring break and starting back up on April 5th!
Couples Class went right along with the Italian theme... We started with dinner ~ lasagna, salad and bread. We painted an abstract wine bottle painting with vivid colors. This was a fun painting! The couples worked together on their paintings and got really creative when it came to painting the labels on the bottles. It was a great night of creativity! Good Stuff!!!
I'm working on the April schedule. I will post dates and pictures of projects soon! Thanks for visiting!
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