Art Camp Day 2 - Monet Waterlilies

Kids' Art Camp - June 9-13, 2014

Watercolor Fun - Ready, Set, Paint!

Day 2 - Monet Waterlilies

Today we learned quite a bit about the impressionist painter, Claud Monet, and his art by looking at many of his paintings and photos of his home and gardens in Giverny, France.  After learning a little about his life and style of painting, we created a 3-D waterlily similar to the ones he painted so often.

We had three sheets of heavy paper.  We left one sheet blank.  On the second sheet we traced 5 large petals, 5 - 6 medium petals, and 5 - 6 small petals.  On the third sheet we traced 4-5 large leaves and several circles for the flower center.  

The next step was to paint a wet wash over the three sheets:  the blank sheet was painted in shades of blue for the water;  the second sheet with petals was painted in various shades of oranges; and the third sheet was painted green over the large leaves and yellow and red on the flower centers.  After the paint dried, we cut out the flower parts.

Then we used glue sticks to attach first the leaves, then the petals, in a circular fashion around the center of the blue painted sheet, overlapping the leaves and petals at the centers a bit.  The circles were glued on top of all the petals to make the flower center.

Our Monet waterlilies were done, and looked beautiful with their curled leaves and petals.  

Danielle

Gretchen

Hailey

Madison

Melody

Danielle and Hailey left for home after class on their bikes, looking so charming that I had to snap a photo of that too!

Day 3 is going to be a blast!  We are going to paint BIG!