Garden Paintings-Monet's Garden

In this lesson, we're going to paint garden scenes. I thought this would be a great project, because in your science class right now, you're studying different habitats and talking about ponds and lily pads.


Be ready for next class period, we're going to take a field trip to a local pond, and do some sketches of the surroundings like Claude Monet did in his Nature paintings. Then, the next class period we will spend our time talking about the famous painter Claude Monet. He did many great paintings of nature. After that, we will be ready to start our final project. In this project, we will be using watercolor, and different types of wide paint brushes, sponges, and q-tips.



For more information on Claude Monet visit these very informative sites:

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm, http://giverny.org/monet/biograph/

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Mayan Headdress: A Cultural lesson

  As I try to strive in the classroom, everyone comes from different backgrounds, which makes everyone very unique and special! It's important to incorporate this through learning. In your history class right now, you're talking about the Mayan Civilization, so I thought we could incorporate what you're learning in there, with art. In this project, we're going  to take your profile and draw it on a big sheet of paper. Once you have accomplished that, we're going to to draw colorful Mayan Headdresses on each of them. The objective of this blog, is to give you some examples of different types of Mayan Headdresses.

 As you can see through these awesome examples, Mayan headdresses are really just made out of different shapes and lots of different colors! So, use your imagination and create your own headdress!

encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576077/maya_civilization.html

Modern Mona

  In this unit, we're studying Leonardo DaVinci's  "Mona Lisa." For the main project, we're taking the Portrait of Mona Lisa, then recreating our own in modern times. For example, Drawing Mona Lisa, and putting her in a car, a mall, or playing some sort of modern day sport. The possibilities are endless for this project, use your imagination! 

 To enrich your mind, in more learning about the artist Leonardo DaVinci and his various works, visit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/da_vinci_leonardo.shtml)

"Mona Lisa" [1503-1506] by Leonard da Vinci

Draw a Self-Portrait

 In class, we are doing a project called "Draw a Self-Portrait." As you all know by me lecturing in class, a Self-Portrait is defined as being a portrait of yourself, drawn by you! As I talked about in class, we are going to do this by observing yourself in a mirror and then placing the features you see through the mirror down on the page. 

 The objective of this post, is for you to see some examples of Self-Portraits, and maybe get some ideas on how you want to express yourself through different mediums on your page.

  

Frida Kahlo ‘Self-Portrait with Monkey’ 1938

Rembrandt is often called the master of brush work, and looking at this self portrait at full scale makes it immediately clear why.

Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889