It's been so long since my last blog! :( Things at school have been so hectic lately! Life in the residence and the classroom is a blur in the holiday season. But, I am excited to begin our next eight week unit in our first grade class on "sharing the planet/potable water." For a creative spin, our class is researching and re-creating famous paintings featuring water, as one of several inquiries. We are doing Monet's Water Lilies first.
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Below, an older resident student {an aspiring artist) helps me re-create Water Lilies using water color paints (Monet actually used oil based paints, although it looks a bit like water color at first glance!) She is so talented:
{*A close replica? I think so! The original on my Macbook and our re-creation ^^}.
{*She has such an eye for color, gradation, and for the light and sense of reflection in the painting. Below are some of the helpful hints that she shared about water color painting. I recorded them here:
Water Color Painting Notes
Sketch first
Use small drops of paint: use 5 basic colors for young ones: blue, green, yellow, pink
Use lots of water
Don't push the brush too hard; loose brush strokes: "tache" (dab brush)
When in doubt, choose a lighter shade and later darken (water colors cannot be painted over as oil can).
Paint in broad brush strokes around the sketches
Mix two similar colors together to create more gradation
Smaller brush to cover base colors
Mix white and blue to show reflections in the water
Comment on light/shadows as part of tone
Dark lines create shadows under objects
Impressionism is not about detail; in fact no detail=general sense
{*For more on Monet's works}:http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results?ft=monet&x=-928&y=-58
{*Fun and informative YouTube video on how to paint like Monet}:
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Happy painting! :)
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