1. Docent Material & Setup List:
Monet Inspired Landscape
Docent Clean up List:
Docent Material & Setup List:
1 x book ‘The Magical Garden of Claude Monet’
Give each student:
Make sure names are on paper(s)
Place completed art work on drying racks – remember to label with teachers name
Wipe down tables, refill any items and return to bins as you found them
Close the lens cap to turn the projector off
Send to parents about the lesson – thanks for doing this and leading the lesson!
Pencil
Eraser
Paper
Paintbrushes
Give each table:
Pallet trays x 3
Small amounts of tempera paint:
Blue
Yellow
White
Red
Green (ideally you’ll have students mix their own)
Please remember to come back and put your art work back in your bins once they have dried – thanks!

2. Monet Inspired Landscape
‘The Magical Garden of Claude Monet’
Welcome in the students. State the lesson name.

3. Today’s Lesson Skill Development: Introduction to Impressionism
Monet Inspired Landscape
Today’s Lesson
Skill Development:
Introduction to Impressionism
Introduction to Claude Monet
You will learn today:
Monet’s garden
about negative space
to use materials
develop imagination and creativity
Enhance your ability to mix colors on a palette
Today you are going to create your interpretation of this Claude Monet landscape:
Explain the lesson objective and description
The next few slides introduce students to one of worlds most prominent impressionist painters. We have several of his works available on display in the art room – please refer to these

4. Monet Inspired Landscape
What is a Landscape?
A landscape is an image or picture of a natural setting.
It can be a painting, drawing or photograph of a scene from nature.
Looking around the room can you point to the landscape paintings we have on display – can you name the artists?

5. What is Impressionism? Monet Inspired Landscape
Impressionism (the word) came from this painting by Claude Monet.
It is style of painting that began in France around 1870 included artists such as Monet, Degas and Pissarro.
It uses spots of color to show the effects of different kinds of light, and that attempts to capture the feeling of a scene rather than specific details
‘Impression Sunrise’ 1872
Claude Monet
more info on this painting: Monet’s Impression Sunrise, was created from a scene in the port of Le Havre. Monet depicts a mist, which provides a hazy background to the piece set in the French harbor. The orange and yellow hues contrast brilliantly with the dark vessels, where little, if any detail is immediately visible to the audience. It is a striking and candid work that shows the smaller boats in the foreground almost being propelled along by the movement of the water. This has, once again, been achieved by separate brushstrokes that also show various colors "sparkling" on the sea.

6. Who was Claude Monet? Monet Inspired Landscape
Monet felt that nature knows no black or white and nature knows no line. These beliefs resulted in this artist creating beautifully colorful and energetic pieces of work.
The leading member of the Impressionists, he captured the spontaneity of nature's wonderful light.
He was also incredibly prolific (he painted a LOT!) and today many museums (and private collectors) possess his work
Taken from KinderArt
Claude Monet
(1840–1926).

7. Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
Monet Inspired Landscape
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899
This is the original painting that inspires our art lesson today
Claude Monet (Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

8. Let’s get started.. Write your name on the paper
Monet Inspired Landscape
Let’s get started..
Write your name on the paper
Draw out the lines for the bridge
Now take your paint brushes and dip in the paint, do not mix just keep dapping and build out your painting.
Start with trees
Paint in pond
Now add in trees and flowers
Et voila – a Monet inspired landscape!
Some examples of the art piece we are creating today. We have samples on the wall to refer to also.

9. New LESSON PLAN bASED on kinderart lesson plan
Art history lesson slides are original and built from various sources including
By Tara Button
April 2017, updated January 2018