1)Observe and describe

 Photographs of water lilies ;
 Reproductions of Claude Monet’s Nympheas

Watch, comment, analyse the various pictures : colours of the plant, palette used by the painter for the representation of the light, the water, the leaves, and the flowers.

Observe more closely to try to understand how Claude Monet manages to represent the flowers. Notice than he paints with strokes of various size, colour and orientation.

 2) Realize a background on a thick sheet of soaked paper from inks stains (choice of colours : various blues, greens a little brown, yellow and orange). Dab the excess of ink with absorbing paper.

 3) Make up shapes of flowers with models cut out from thick cardboard : on the background, draw leaves with a pencil, paint the shape with thick painting alternating the strokes of various shades of green. The vegetal shapes will be outlined with a thin paintbrush in the end, in a different shade of green. Peindre les fleurs avec des touches de peinture épaisse, rapides, courbes, de bas en haut -comme croissent les plantes-, dans les teintes observées sur les photographies : blanche, rose, jaune clair, mauve.

FOLLOWING - ON ACTIVITIES

Represent other flowers of different shapes (bellflowers, clusters), with pencils pens, paint, on various props (material, plastic, paper, wood), inspiring from the composition observed in the works of other artists… Représenter le "portrait" d’une fleur, très sobrement, dans un grand espace carré, comme dans les oeuvres de Jean-Marie Deroche.

Associate, as Sandrine Morsillo does, flower painting to a handwritten text, on the same page : create or recompose a poem, illustrate this text with gouache.

ASSESSMENT

It will check

 the use and the adaptation of the gesture to the tools and materials
 the choice of the colours i relation to the project.

Marie José Guillaume , Nursery Scool Orangerie Bonnelles (Yvelines )France