Rembrandt, Monet and My Great Artists Too

In my quest to read many books to Delaney and Liam, when I'm at the library I pick out any book that has an interesting cover or pretty pictures and text.

I came across a serendipitous gem the other day....
Bridget's Beret by Tom Lichtenheld

In CC, we are studying a few of the great artists. Who they were and what style of painting they did.
Unbeknownst to me, Bridget's Beret is about a girl who loves to draw and paint and she wanted to have a hat, but not just any hat, a big black beret. The kind of hat that lots of Great Artists wear. There are pictures of Rembrandt, Sissley, Monet and Picasso. I loved how Delaney saw the pictures of Rembrandt and Monet--and without prompting she recognized them!

Well, after reading about Bridget, we too gathered some hats and went to work painting.


Our hats are on....we're ready to paint.

At the end of the book there is more information about different artists and their style of painting. Connor was intrigued by French artist Georges Seurat. He invented a technique called pointillism, which is simply painting with many dots of color. Connor tried his hand at pointillism

"And where is Ryan?" I can just imagine myself saying this 20 years from now as I look at this blog in book form.....well, painting and crafting are just not his thing, but he's here. As we are having fun painting he is busy working on his book report on "Number the Stars" or latin, or possibly geography or math.


A beautiful budding artist!