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/