Today is our first day back at Enrich! It's Term 3 already! I've had a really good day because I started off with some art. Lots of people wanted to do science a few wanted to do maths an quite a lot did art. For art we were working on impressionism paintings by Claude Monet. He's a very clever man who invented this type of painting. Back then paintings were very fine and detailed. Claude Monet painted freely and changed all that. A critic thought of it as more of an impression of something so that's how the name impressionism came to be. Many people worked with Claude Monet but soon stopped this and went back to the old style. Claude Monet worked further with this and became a very famous man. His most famous painting was of the water lillies in his garden. That is what we were painting. We looked at mixing colours and using different textures. One of the interesting things I found out is when painting an impressionism is that you only use a brush with a square tip. That makes it easier to make it look slightly messier and you can hold the brush different ways to get different looks and textures. This is a clip on how to paint like Claude Monet. Feel free to take a look.
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