Monsieur Perrot's Dance Class

Edgar Degas, ca. 1875.

Oil on Canvas.

I chose this picture because it's in our Colour Your Own Impressionist Paintings book.

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Well, after a break from artist study for the past month, I thought we had better get into it again!

This month's artist is Edgar Degas.  This brings to mind pictures of ballerinas....

Edgar Degas

1834-1917

Click here to read his biography.  He did paint more than ballerinas, I hope to share some of his other paintings with you this month too.

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This week's picture is the last for our Pissarro study.  I have chosen this picture because it is featured in our new colouring book (see below).  This is "Picture Study the Easy Way!" 

Camille Pissarro. Chestnut Trees at Louviciennes, ca. 1872. Oil on Canvas.

This is one of Pissarro's "non-pointillism" paintings.  If there is such a word!

This morning this book arrived:

It has several colouring pages for all the Impressionists we are planning to study this year, and includes some of Renoir's paintings that were missing from Colour your Own Renoir Paintings.  No doubt, some of these will be turned into paper dolls at some stage!

I think the girls are getting a bit sick of me asking them to do a drawing for Sketch Tuesday and Picture Study every week!  I'm still waiting for their pictures of Renoir's Lady at the Piano, but I thought I'd post the pictures & narrations they did for it 4 years ago.  Hopefully it's an encouragement to some of you that even the little ones can have a go!

Here is Bethany's Picture & Narration, at age 5 1/2:

Emily at age 4 found it easier to copy Beth's picture than the original!

It is so lovely to look back at these pictures years later.  I keep them in a large clear file which has it's own plastic box so it sits neatly on the shelf.  I'd still love the girls to try this one again!

Here is this week's Pissarro Picture:

The Shepherdess. 1881. Oil on Canvas.

This week I have linked to www.ibiblio.org.

I usually post the picture for the week on a Monday, but here it is a few days late!  I love this picture, it reminds me to be thankful we have washing machines nowadays!!

Washerwomen, Eragny-sur-Epte, 1895.

I love the beautiful glowing, golden colours Pissarro uses in his paintings. 

Our Pissarro picture for this week is:

Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte

I chose this picture to start with as we have a nice large calendar picture of it.  For a while we weren"t sure what was in the little basket on the bottom right of the picture...until we realized it was a baby in a "Moses basket."  I would love to find out more about this painting.  I am thinking of having the girls do a written or oral narration of the picture, we'll see what we can come up with.

This month's artist is Camille Pissarro.

Camille Pissarro

1830 - 1903

Click on his name above to read his biography.

Last week's Renoir picture of the week was the still life, Fruits of the Midi:

Instead of having the girls copy this particular still life, I had them arrange their own and draw them in oil pastels.  Here they are:

Ainsley

 Emily

Bethany

Here is the last Renoir Picture.  It is also one the girls drew last time we studied Renoir, so we'll see how they go!

Lady at the Piano. Renoir, 1875.