Artists and Art Week 13 – Monet Inspired Christmas Tree

  After reading Katie Meets The Impressionists

over and over at Bear’s request, I figured it would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to do a Monet artist study, seeing how interested she was in the
impressionist art.

Using our Christmas tree as inspiration, we dabbed and daubed as the painters in Katie Meets the Impressionists. 

 She had a beautiful shape of a tree here, but decided to do a super-zoomed in tree (her words) as you will see in the photo of the finished painting.

 Mommy's finished tree.

Bear's "super-zoomed in" tree.

 Photographed with the inspiration tree.

I didn’t share any actual artist biographical information with her this time since it was a bit of a spur-of-the-moment project.

Art elements and principles, and vocabulary, taught:

magnification, texture, impressionist, use of space, balance

What are your favorite books for kids about artists? 

If you've done any art with your child this week based on an artist or illustration style, or taught some of the elements and principles of art, or studied a musician or any other type of artist, please join the Linky.  Please remember to link back.  

Comments are appreciated! 

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