This year we started our art appreciation with works from William Adolphe Bouguereau, a very successful French painter of the 1850’s Paris Salon.
His paintings are beautiful and my daughters have loved looking at his works.
My youngest daughter chose “The Hard Lesson” for our most recent art appreciation lesson. She orally narrated her observations and agreed to paint her own copy of the painting.
Instead of drawing or tracing an outline of this artwork, I used Picasa‘s “pencil outline” editing option and created a very quick full-page illustration.
Miss.L11 painted her picture, while I used chalk pastels for my painting. We listened to Brahms as we quietly painted. An hour or less later, our paintings were finished and hanging on our Art Gallery wall (well, actually on our school room door). Not a ‘hard lesson’ at all!
And here are your free pages ~
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau Biography & Picture Study
– includes a blank biography notebooking page and postcard-sized pictures for picture study
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau Wall Chart – includes a brief biography and mini gallery of his paintings
- “The Hard Lesson” outline picture ~ William-Adolphe Bouguereau – Hard Lesson
- Other Famous Artists free pages
May you enjoy this easy lesson in your Fine Arts!
Blessings and much grace,
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Wonderful! I saw your other Famous Artist pages, and was disappointed that i didn’t find Bouguereau : so i did a Google search and ended up back here again! Thank you! You are one of my most favourite homeschool bloggers 🙂 – I really appreciate your focus on art, as it’s not one of my strengths, but it’s something i think is not only fun, but useful and needful for children 🙂 Thank you for blessing my family!
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@Stephanie, I’m so glad that you can find inspiration and help here! Enjoy!
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Great to see. I acquired a print of his work named “Yvonne”. His last name on there however is spelled Bovgvereav.
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Using picasa’s pencil outline tool is a great idea!
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