Docent Training
AAYF Projects 2024-25
Proud as a Peacock
Monet’s Water Lilies
Created by Ashish Sharma
November 2024
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
By employing the French Impressionists’ tache technique, in the form of small dabs of acrylic paint applied to paper, students will create their own version
of Claude Monet’s famous Water Lilies .
OBJECTIVES
● Students will learn the history of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies series.
● Students will use acrylic paint to create a water lily painting of their own.
● Students will explore the tache technique that Monet and other Impressionists used.
SUPPLIES (PER STUDENT)
● oil & acrylic paper 4.5” x 12” (a 9”x 12” is cut into half)
● flat brush # 12 & fine tip round brush # 0 or #1
● paper towel
● pencil #2 with eraser
● ACRYLIC PAINT:
1.5 Tablespoon: Green Oxide
1 Tablespoon: Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Green, Magenta, Burnt Sienna
1 Teaspoon: Red Chrome Yellow, Mars Black
SUPPLIES (Shared)
● masking tape
● paint palette
● water
ART VOCABULARY
Foreground – part of a scene or representation that is nearest to and in front of the spectator.
Background – Parts of an artwork that lie in the distance. Appears to be behind objects in the foreground.
Tint – Mixture of a color with white, which lightens the value.
Secondary Colors – Mixture of two primary colors. R & Y= orange, Y & B=green, and B & R= violet.
Texture – Element of Art describing the surface quality, i.e., rough, smooth, glossy etc. can be physical (tactile) or visual.
Ellipse – An illusion used by artists to show a circle in perspective.
Gesture – Term employed to characterize the technique of applying paint with bold, sweeping brush strokes in a free and expressive manner.
Impressionism – Art movement in painting originating in France in the 1870s. Characterized by a concern with depicting the changing effect of light and color.
Tache technique – French word for stain, mark, or blotch. In the style of Tachisme.
Tachisme – French for a style of painting featuring the intuitive, spontaneous gesture of the artist’s brushstroke.
DOWNLOAD
▪ Monet’s Water Lilies Presentation
▪ Monet’s Water Lillies Lesson Plan
TEACHERS/PARENTS RESOURCES
▪ Distance Learning Tips – Suggestions to help make this experience enjoyable for all.
▪ Elements of Art – Resource sheet with vocabulary used by artists.
