Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Monet Inspired Birch Forest - Day 1

I'll be creating weekly masterpieces with a group of 2/3 graders beginning in a couple days.  I like to test lessons on my chicklets first so I can get an idea of what curve balls I can expect during class time.  Today our inspiration came from Monet's "Magpie".


I love, love, LOVE Patty's blog over at http://www.deepspacesparkle.com and used her Birch Trees Winter Landscape Art Lesson as my springboard.  She did this project with 6th graders.  I'll be doing it with 2/3 graders and my test subjects are 4 and 6 years old so I was bracing myself and keeping my expectations in check.  Besides repeated attempts to stop my son from mixing colors in the palette and shaking water all over everything while "drying" his brush I think they are turning out nicely for their ages.  I can't wait to see the finished products on Thursday!






I couldn't resist the urge to do one myself as well.  We'll lift the tape and paint in the shadows below the horizon line in 2 days.
  

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  1. ZonomaJanuary 8, 2013 at 3:56 PM

    Okay, I know it isn't exactly 'on point' with the exercise but I LOVE the one in the lower right corner.

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  2. HeidiJanuary 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM

    That's Viktor. He couldn't help himself. I told him to choose 2 colors to blend in the sky and he just went crazy. He was having too much fun though. We'll just say he moved from impressionism to expressionism. ;)

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