Kids watercolour class Week two Term 3, 2012
Monet was an Impressionist artist who
lived in France about a hundred years ago and loved to paint nature,
light and colours - especially his garden. He created these beautiful
gardens to paint in, that people can visit if they travel to France.
Here Monet had a large pond surrounded by Willow trees, a pretty
bridge and water lilies which he painted many times mostly in
beautiful blues and greens.
Monet tried to capture the
'impression' or the fleeting feeling or quality of light in his
paintings. This is why he was called an Impressionist, along with
other artists doing the same sort of thing as him at the time. It was
more important to them to paint their impression of something then
anything else, this is why sometimes their paintings might take a
while to work out what they are paintings of. Because Impressionist
painters were interested mostly in colour and light their work can
look quite abstract.
Today we will be doing a painting
inspired by Monet and his Water Lilies, using pencil, pastel and
watercolour paints. In these paintings will use mostly blues and
greens like Monet, to create a serene and abstracted painting
exploring water-colour paint and the colours of water and the sky.
Monet's
paintings were sometimes very large so that when you are looking them
it you too feel surrounded by gardens as these people are in the photo below.
You
can take your much smaller painting home and give to your family to
frame if you like :)
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