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Clause Monet by Nancy Nunhead
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OK so I’m going to use this for our Picture study on the Monet artist. But I’m not really sure what else I should do. I plan to study one artist per 6 weeks. So do i make her read it and then study the pictures in the book? Which pictures should do you guys think are the best ones to use? Should there be other things involved in studying an artist? This area is so vague for me and I’m just not familiar with all this stuff myself.
Here’s what I would recommend. Don’t worry about the short biography/introduction part of the book right now. How old is your daughter? She would probably like Linnea in Monet’s Garden as an introduction to the artist; you can probably find it in your library.
Steps for picture study –
- Select a picture from the book that you like. Tell your daughter the name of it, then both of you look at it until you can close your eyes and see it in detail in your mind. If a portion is fuzzy, open your eyes and look at that section again until you’ve got the whole thing painted on the wall of your mental art gallery.
- Close the book and have your daughter describe the picture in as much detail as she can. Then you add anything that you noticed that she hasn’t mentioned.
- Look at the picture again to double check any areas that you weren’t sure about or to clarify any portions of the description/narration together.
- Set the book, open to that picture, in a prominent place in your house (at about eye level) for the rest of the week.
- Next week, pick a different picture in the book and repeat.
It’s going to be a benefit that you’re not familiar with art yourself, because you’ll get to discover all these pictures firsthand with your daughter. You’ll find that you like some artists better than others, and some pictures better than others. The important thing is to form your own relation with the artists and their works, and let your daughter do the same. Does that help?
I can tell you how we will be doing picture study – maybe it will give you some ideas. I plan picture study twice a week (about 20min each time) because my children really enjoy it. We also only study each artist for 4 weeks. One new thing we will be doing this year is notebooking so the children will have an Artist/Picture Study Notebook full of notebooking pages, sketches, art projects, etc at the end of the year.
Each month I plan as follows: we study it on Tues. and Thurs.
1st Week:
Tuesday; view picture 1 , read bio of artist, oral narration, sketch art or a coloring page
Thursday: View picture 1 and 2 , make a notebooking page about artist2nd week
Tuesday: View pictures 1 – 3, discuss the life of the artist, oral narration, sketch or coloring page
Thursday: View pictures 1-4, make a notebooking page about artist, discuss the srtist and his work, written narration3rd week
Tuesday: View all previous pictures and introduce a few new ones, discuss how the artists work changed, if it did, throughout his/her lifetime.
Thursday: View all pictures, do a project from book: Discovering Great Artists4th week
Tuesday; View pictures, work on notebooking pages, read a book about the artist
Thursday: View pictures – try to name them all, work on notebooking pages or do a project from Discovering great Artists book.Here’s a member’s site poseted previously, with a wealth of info. and good book recommendations, too.
http://www.squidoo.com/monet-artist-study
There’s also a video series from Devine Entertainment from Nest called the Artist Specials. The title is “Monet: Shadow and Light”
My children really enjoyed the Linnea video (I need to get the book, too) and the Shadow and Light video. Also, check in your area museums to see if they have a Monet or Impressionist exhibit now or anytime this year. Our Atlanta High just had one over the Spring and Summer.
Rachel
Oh I forgot to recommend art books by James Mayhew and Lawrence Anholt, “What makes a Monet a Monet (for slightly older) and Come Look With Me series, though in looking through the table of contents on them, I didn’t see any with Monet. But they are still very worthwhile to have around as general exposure.
If you have any toddlers around while doing this study (or just have around for their viewing pleasure), Julie Merberg has a series of art board books to peruse. I wish I’d known of these when mine were little.
When we’re out at dr.’s offices or other places that have artwork on the walls, I take the opportunity to do some art study. I just draw there attention to it and ask them what they see and to tell about it; a narration.
Rachel
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