Monet-Style Reflections
The Lester Prairie School third graders learned about Claude Monet and his impressionistic, reflective paintings. The students listened to information about Monet’s life and his garden in the books, Monet, by Mike Venezia, and Linnea in Monet’s Garden, by Christina Bjork. Next, artificial flowers were observed and drawn, using overlapping; space was left on the bottoms of the papers for the reflections of the flowers, stems, leaves, and grass.
Projections were shown to students featuring Monet’s reflective paintings of his water garden in the French town of Giverny, the Japanese bridge, and trees. A combination of pastels and tempera paint was used in the procedure for creating the artwork. White paint was added to chosen colors to make tints of those colors. Foggy, misty skies were produced by blended pastel colors applied around the flowers, and painted plant reflections in the water were covered over with blended pastels and wavy lines. This is the second year that the Lester Prairie third grade has created Monet-inspired reflections. The combination of mediums has produced successful results; viewers of the showcase display have commented on the realistic quality of the reflections.
Picture on left done my Marilin Ixtlilco and picture on right by Kaden Otto
Picture on left by Jurney Dammann and pitcture on right by Sage Sponsel
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