As an extension to my previous Monet inspired waterlilies, I decided to do another version of the project to strengthen student knowledge about the artist. This is a quick, no prep lesson that delivers beautiful results at the end. Thank you Kathy Barbro for the idea!
Materials required:
- A3 paper
- oil pastels
- dark blue & light blue ink
- pencils & erasers
Duration: 1 lesson of 80 minutes
1. The objective for this lesson was to understand the meaning of 'perspective' and finally to draw waterlilies showing perspective.
2. In order to get them to understand the concept of perspective, I showed them two images of Monet's water lily paintings and asked them to look at both the images and predict what 'perspective' means. I also told them that both his paintings showed perspective so they had to find all the similarities between the two images. Of course they said things like reflections, blue colour, etc. but eventually through questioning and probing, they figured it out. For real life application of the concept, I then asked them to look outside our classroom window and find anything that seemed far away and something that seemed closer to them.
3. To create a water lily painting showing perspective, this meant that the kids had to draw large sized waterlilies at the bottom of their page (foreground), medium sized waterlilies in the middle of the page and small sized waterlilies at the top of their page (background). So I did a demonstration on:
- how to draw a water lily. I showed them how to draw large, medium and small ones and even varied the petal shapes for variety. I gave the low ability students a step-by-step drawing guide added support.
- applying the oil pastels by mixing and layering colours
- applying light and dark blue inks for the water
Enjoy the results!
Materials required:
- A3 paper
- oil pastels
- dark blue & light blue ink
- pencils & erasers
Duration: 1 lesson of 80 minutes
1. The objective for this lesson was to understand the meaning of 'perspective' and finally to draw waterlilies showing perspective.
2. In order to get them to understand the concept of perspective, I showed them two images of Monet's water lily paintings and asked them to look at both the images and predict what 'perspective' means. I also told them that both his paintings showed perspective so they had to find all the similarities between the two images. Of course they said things like reflections, blue colour, etc. but eventually through questioning and probing, they figured it out. For real life application of the concept, I then asked them to look outside our classroom window and find anything that seemed far away and something that seemed closer to them.
3. To create a water lily painting showing perspective, this meant that the kids had to draw large sized waterlilies at the bottom of their page (foreground), medium sized waterlilies in the middle of the page and small sized waterlilies at the top of their page (background). So I did a demonstration on:
- how to draw a water lily. I showed them how to draw large, medium and small ones and even varied the petal shapes for variety. I gave the low ability students a step-by-step drawing guide added support.
- applying the oil pastels by mixing and layering colours
- applying light and dark blue inks for the water
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| Oil pastel application complete |
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| ...and the ink application starts! |
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