Impressionistic Art - Teacups in the Garden

Impressionistic Starry Night Quilt in the Style of Monet

I used lots of batiks with shadings of light and dark with blues and purples, allowing the light to bounce off in interesting ways depending on the time of day.

The lovely Colonial Williamsburg Artwork of Caesar Monturano

The friendly Mr. Monturano has also provided art for the National Archives, the Kennedy Center, and Christ Church in historic Alexandria, Virginia.

Painting Lafayette walls, creamy kitchen, and my kids on PBS

This time, our Becoming History presentation presented the Gilded Age, while debuting the heroically regal Lafayette golden-green. What a perfect combination.

Becoming the Gilded Age with Impressionist Art

My son portrayed a Texan cowboy/ Rough Rider. My daughter was Anne of Green Gables. I played Queen Liliuokalani and a lady in an impressionist painting.

Impressionist Art Lessons in our House and Garden

We are using a terrific book for this: Monet and the Impressionists for Kids, which includes terrific art lessons my kids used for their projects.

Auditioning paint colors and finding Lafayette

Perplexed I looked around…and realized the sunshine was coming from the yellow paint, which had finally overtaken the old cave pink salmon of gloom and doom.