StArt – Everybody Bonjours

My first choice for StArt project this week was painting in impressionist style following directions in the book from my home collection Discovering Great Artists. I was all prepared with the pretty good book – The Magical Garden of Claude Monet and with some suggestions on introduction to impressionists from First School. But… Anna was not in the least interested and hated the book. So I went for my second choice instead and selected another book about France that we read for our geography track – Everybody Bonjours. The illustration in this book were nice, but I wish it had more of a story. A very short poem was stretched across multiple pages, and the text was a bit too simple for Anna. There is a page in the end that talks about famous places of Paris, but that page didn’t hold her attention at all.

For the art portion I wanted to finally try a resist painting. Anna immediately recognized the Eiffel Tower on the page and got quite excited. I suggested using the colors of French flag for the painting – it’s harder to produce “dirty brown” by mixing blue, red and white. She gave it a good try though. Interestingly, she was disappointed when I pulled the masking tape off – she said that she liked her Eiffel Tower blue. My husband cracked me up when he came home and said, Oh, you did an Eiffel Tower! I said, I am glad it’s recognizable, and he goes, Well, I know that you are talking about France, otherwise I would think that it’s a weird letter A.

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