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Let’s recreate Claude Monet’s Sunflowers using a mixed media process.

INSTRUCTIONS

STEP 1: Print Monet’s Sunflowers.

STEP 2: Use oil pastels to color the flowers, vase,

and tablecloth.

STEP 3: Rub the oil pastels with cotton swabs to

soften the look and to blend the strokes.

STEP 4: Paint the background with watercolors.

SUPPLIES

Sunflowers

printable

Cotton swabs

Oil Pastels

Watercolors

Paintbrush

MONET

Claude Monet was a French artist who loved to draw as a child.

Monet's use of light was unique. He tried to capture the changing

effects of color with light. He used a wide range of vibrant colors and

painted quickly using short brushstrokes.

IMPRESSIONISM

Monet was considered an ‘Impressionist’. Impressionism is a style of

painting that began in France in the early 1860s when artists started

painting pictures outside, rather than in their studios. They wanted to

capture moments in time. Because the light conditions kept changing,

they had to work very quickly, using quick, gestural brushstrokes of

paint. Impressionist artists were not trying to paint a reflection of real

life, but an ‘impression’ of what the person, light, atmosphere, object

or landscape looked like to them.

MONET SUNFLOWERS