Crayon Resist with Monet

In this project we recreated Claude Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies.  We started by drawing the bridge, clouds, water lilies and flowers with crayon, and after that we used watercolor paint to paint in the background.  We used mainly warm colors to draw with crayons and we painted with cool colors.  We had to use a lot of water to the paint in order to get a gradient and faded effect.

Monet created a lot of paintings of water, with flowers and trees and buildings or rocks reflecting in the water.  To get students to practice reflection, students could create a body of water and choose to draw something that is reflecting in the water.