This page welcomes your child to learn about a group of artists that came to be known as the Impressionists. The Impressionists made art that showed what eah of them saw in their own time. "You can make art about the things you see around you, just as the Impressionists did."

Gouache is a type of watercolor that is less transparent. In the video lessons we show how to use this new type of paint. Video lessons also include instruction on carving, modeling clay, and constructing cardboard and chipboard sculptures.

Text lessons feature an artist from the Impressionist movement. This story gives insight into the differences that stood between the Impressionists and the Royal Academy of the mid-1800's.

Children look at art by the master, Caillebotte.

Children then make a work of art using a wash technique.

Large illustrations make following directions easy for children.

This text lesson reveals how the availability of new colors gave the Impressionists new ways of looking at the world. Color in tubes meant that artists could easily paint outdoors.

In the artwork by Monet we discover his painting studio in a boat and explore his waterlily paintings.

Once children have absorbed the new ideas presented in the lesson, it's their turn to make a work of art that shows reflections.

This text lesson gives us a look into the life of Degas.

In a two page spread, children see a sculpture at three different angles, as if they had walked around it.

Full page illustrations allow for closer observation of the work.

The project shows children a new method for making a clay sculpture.

Full page illustrations allow children to see the soft brushwork that the Impressionist master, Renoir is known for.

Full page illustrations allow children to see the loose brush strokes that master artist, Monet is known for.