Our famous artist study will be Claude Monet a French Impressionist painter. Impressionism is a 19th century art movement originating with Paris based artists. It captures an image as if you just glanced at it and uses bold colors rather than details. Impressionist paintings are mostly outdoor scenes and done in the twilight or evening to produce a shadowy effect. The short brush strokes are visable and colors are applied side by side with little mixing. Black paint is avoided and the artist will mix complimentary colors (purple/yellow, red/green, blue/orange) to produce dark tones.
Here is the inspiration for our project: Monet's Waterlilies and the Japanese Bridge. Monet and his family owned a house and property in the French countryside that included a water meadow. He began a vast landscaping project that included lily ponds that would become the subject of 250 paintings in his waterlily series.
We will create our project in two steps. First we will paint a background without a lot of details. Colors and brush strokes will be used to create a pond and foliage. Part two will be to make the pop out for the Japanese bridge and tissue paper for the waterlilies. The end result will be a 3D, mixed media version of Waterlilies.
