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Sketch Tuesday – Jardin a Sainte-Adresse

Please read the end of this post for the summer plans for Sketch Tuesday. Join us when you can!

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View: Jardin a Sainte-Adresse, 1867.

This week’s assignment is due Monday, August 5, 2019.

Find a view where you can draw and then paint a scene like the one you see in this painting. You will need a foreground, a middle ground, and a background. Don’t forget to make your horizon line first and then sketch in the other areas. You may copy this painting if you would rather do that instead.

All sketchers are welcome and there is no need to sign up. Send in your sketches in jpg format and mail them to: [email protected] by Monday, August 5, 2019 for sketches and I will include them in Tuesday’s slideshow. Complete instructions are found by clicking the Sketch Tuesday tab at the top of my blog.

Sketch Tuesday – Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 through August 27, 2019: We will be using the six assignments in the Claude Monet and Felix Mendelssohn plans from my Free Downloads page.
September 3, 2019: Back to regular Sketch Tuesday assignments for the new school year.

Sketch Tuesday – Artist’s House at Argenteuil

Please read the end of this post for the summer plans for Sketch Tuesday. Join us when you can!

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View: The Artist’s House at Argenteuil, 1873.

This week’s assignment is due Monday, July 29, 2019.

Sketch and then paint a section of this painting with your choice of watercolors, oils, acrylics, or oil pastels. Concentrate on use of color, perspective, and over-all impressionistic style.

All sketchers are welcome and there is no need to sign up. Send in your sketches in jpg format and mail them to: [email protected] by Monday, July 29, 2019 for sketches and I will include them in Tuesday’s slideshow. Complete instructions are found by clicking the Sketch Tuesday tab at the top of my blog.

Sketch Tuesday – Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 through August 27, 2019: We will be using the six assignments in the Claude Monet and Felix Mendelssohn plans from my Free Downloads page.
September 3, 2019: Back to regular Sketch Tuesday assignments for the new school year.

Intimate Impressionism – Claude Monet

I am continuing to prepare for my up-coming trip to the Intimate Impressionism exhibit at the Legion of Honor. I love Claude Monet’s paintings and eagerly anticipate seeing some at this event. I am also contemplating another trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a trip to New York later in the spring. So much to look forward to!!!

This week we are going to take a closer look at Claude Monet. There is so much information out there about Monet so don’t get overwhelmed. Keep it simple!

Download: Claude Monet Intimate Impressionist notebook page

Use the notebook page above to create a simple record of your study. I am studying the painting shown on the notebook page: Sailboats on the Seine.

Just for fun, compare Monet’s painting to Gustave Caillebotte’s Sailboats on the Seine.
Look at your local public library for any children’s books on Monet. Share a little of the history of impressionism with them as well. I really like this book if you want to go deeper:Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities (For Kids series) Note there are Amazon affiliate links in this entry to items I own and love.

Here is the schedule of artists planned in this series:

Week 1: Edgar Degas

Week 2: Claude Monet

Week 3: Paul Gauguin

Week 4: Pierre August Renoir

Week 5: Berthe Morisot

Week 6: Camille Pissarro

Week 7: Alfred Sisley

Week 8: Paul Cezanne

Week 9: Edouard Manet

Week 10: Edouard Vuillard