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Immerse yourself into the world of Claude Monet"s Impressionist Ponds as we investigate both the science and art history of Monet"s colorful ponds. Students will create their own beautiful impressioni... Read more

Immerse yourself into the world of Claude Monet"s Impressionist Ponds as we investigate both the science and art history of Monet"s colorful ponds. Students will create their own beautiful impressionist watercolor painting and hold artifacts from a local Connecticut pond ecosystem. Discuss all the plants and animals that make up the eco-system of local pond life. Touch pond artifacts from the visiting artist's natural history collection including topics of metamorphosis, food chain, soil, and plant adaptations. Look at 20 different Monet pond paintings. Listen to a speaker and participate in group discussion about past person Monet from France. Notice how the paintings are made up of hundreds of tiny yet visible dancing brush strokes. Notice how the paintings look like paintings not like realism or photographs. Notice variations in color and brush strokes in the paintings of the same pond. Discuss how weather, seasons, time of day, light, shadows, reflections, vision impairments and mood could have caused the pond to look different in each painting. 2nd Half: With watercolor paper, paint brushes, and water, learn to paint with both the toe and belly of the brush. Learn to be gentle to the bristles to maintain long lasting tools. Practice the proper way to dip a brush into the water container and wipe excess water off the brush. Practice making tiny small brush strokes or dots on paper. Paint with one color at a time via instruction. We will count in various age appropriate ways as they make a painting consisting of over 500 marks. Students will look at each other"s paintings and discuss how each painting and interpretation is different despite the same instructions, colors, and tools.

I CAN understand how weather, seasons, time of day, and mood artist"s interpretation of a place. I CAN name many unseen organisms and animals that make up a ponds ecosystem. I CAN describe how the fiv... Read more

I CAN understand how weather, seasons, time of day, and mood artist"s interpretation of a place. I CAN name many unseen organisms and animals that make up a ponds ecosystem. I CAN describe how the five senses were important to impressionist paintings. I CAN recognize the difference between an impressionist painting and a photo or realistic painting.