Monet Bridge Painting

Here is my painting of Monet's Bridge. For this activity, I started by creating the orange bridge in the middle of the page with an orange crayon. Next, I took a light green and dark green and created vines at the top of page, and lily pads at the bottom.  I than took my white crayon and created clouds at the top of my page. With the white crayon I also tried to create some movement throughout my work by adding different types of lines throughout my painting. Lastly, I used a red and pink crayon and filled in the lily pads and added different types of flowers under the bridge. Once completed with the crayons, we used blue and purple watercolor to bring out the warm crayon colors we used. I used a blue and purple pattern throughout my painting. 

An extension activity for this project would be to have the students write a short story about their bridge. Students would use their imagination and create a fun story about their bridge that they will share with the class.