Impressionism Painting

In class, we did a painting on impressionism. Impressionism became famous with Claude Monet. He made wonderful paintings that everyone wanted to see. Our project was to do the same and make an impressionism painting. We chose landscapes out of magazines and started painting. We used dabs of paint and if we wanted to mix colors we would put two dabs of paint that were different colors very close together. The closer you look in an impressionism painting the more you can see the dabs of color stuck together but if you look at it from a distance it looks realistic and it doesn't seem like you put dabs of color together. Impressionism is a nice way to make a painting. And that's why we did it in class.