Blind Contour Drawing

To try blind contour drawings again for the first time since seventh grade was a very fun experience. Blind contours are so much fun to do because you never know what you got until you look down at your paper. But sadly for me I was sick for three of the days we got to work on these so I am not quite finished mine yet.

Lantern

This years lantern project was very interesting because when you cut into the paper it was permanent, and the way it looked on you desk was  completely different than the final product. So when it was time to light them up in the dark room it was very cool to see everyones work, as well as your lantern that you have worked so hard on.  

Empty Bowls

This was the first time in my life that I actually got to make bowls and i loved it. Then I was able to paint and glaze them which was a whole new fun road to go down. I think empty bowls is a great idea because its lots of fun for the students who get to make the bowls in class, as well as help raise money. 

Claude Monet

On November 14 1840 in Paris France the artist Claude Monet was born. At the young age of five his family moved out of Paris and into Le Havre, which is a small town near Normandy. While growing up and going to school with his brother Leon, Monet never liked the idea of being confined to the classroom setting. He want to go outside to better and more fun things. But at this same age he developed his love for drawing, he would fill notebooks and schoolbooks with drawings of people and scenery. But while his mother supported his love for art Monets father wanted him to go into business, so in 1857 when his mother died Monet suffered greatly. As he grew older he became better known in his community, and soon met Eugene Boudin who was a landscape artist. Eugene later introduced Monet to painting out doors. In 1859 Monet moved to Paris to attend the Academe Suisse, which is where he met Camille Pissarro who became close friends with him. But in 1861 Monet was stationed in Algiers for his military device, but discharged in 1862 due to health reasons. After he returned back to Paris to continue his work where he met Charles Gleyer, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and Fredric Bazille and those five became close friend foe the upcoming years. Claude Monet is one of the worlds most famous painters and you could find his work in museums all over the world. I personilly enjoy Monets work because almost all of his works are pictures of great out door scenery and wild life. Also it just so happens i found his name because of a picture i had on my phone and i looked it up to see if it was on the sheet and it was. Under here i put a link of some of his works so you could have a visual, just click the pictures at the top of the page.http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm

This piece of work by Monet is one of my personal favorites because it just looks so open and beautiful. This painting is also the painting that i found Monet by.

 This picture I really like because of the way he uses paints to make the sun set reflect off of the water, it almost makes me feel like I am there looking at this great castle in France.

When i first saw this painting I was look for the final one to use and this just caught my eye. How detailed the clouds in the sky and every individual blade of grass Monet painted. It  is just fascinating to me that someone could paint something that looks like I just was standing there and I took with a camera.