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| Neve, kindergarten Isn't this just stunning? I would buy this and put it on my lounge room wall! |
Our class is focusing on narrative writing at the moment and we have just begun learning about settings in stories. To help them become immersed in the concept, we read the picture book, "The Magical Garden of Claude Monet" and then went on a "tour" of his gardens using a Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWx2WNXFF4 The children were entranced! During and after reading and watching these resources we brainstormed things we could see and hear in the gardens. The children then created these artworks before writing setting descriptions of the gardens. I used this gorgeous art lesson for our inspiration: http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2015/04/claude-monets-garden-1st-grade.html?m=1
Lesson Materials:
oil pastels
lead pencils
liquid watercolours or dyes
paintbrushes
spray bottle of water
Lesson Steps:
1. We drew each element of the artwork one step at a time, with me demonstrating and then the children having a go. As usual, I made sure to encourage individuality by showing the children how they could change sizes, shapes, positions etc to make their picture unique.
2. The children coloured in their bridge and waterlilies (I demonstrated how to do this first... no white gaps!)
3. I demonstrated how to use the watercolours to create the different shadowy colours in Monet's pond. We talked about helping the colours swirl into each other instead of just blobs of individual colours all over the page or just having only blue.
4. To gently wet their page (to allow the colours to drip and swirl together nicely), I sprayed each child's artwork with a couple of squirts of water from a spray bottle.
5. The children painted over their art, enjoying the magic of wax resist!
Here they are! Haven't they done an amazing job?!
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