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We’re excited to share Claude Monet and his works with you through this preview from Discover Artists.

  • Kid sitting at dark wood table with a claude monet painting of water and lily pads on it. The kid is drawing a replica of this painting with a paint palette and paint tray and jar of water and art makes me smart claude monet artist study next to her. On a wooden stand is a claude monet art makes me smart spiral packet.
  • Dark wood table rainbow watercolor quilt star at the top saying by hadley that is also in rainbow colors. Also on the table is a tin of paintbrushes, a paper towel, more paintbrushes, a paper with color and watercolor technique information, a laptop, a dirty jar of paint water, and a watercolor palette. A child in a red shirt is copying the rainbow quilt star watercolor on another page
  • Kid's hands drawing on watercolor painting of blue and purple blending colors. The kid is drawing a spiral. This is on a wood table with a watercolor palette, a jar of water with a paintbrush, multiple paintbrushes, a image of the galaxy with a spiral over it, art makes me smart fibonacci gold spiral bound packet and a pencil
  • An anatomy of a butterfly watercolor image. The butterfly is black, yellow, blue, and red. The anatomy image is sitting at a dark wood table and next to the image on a clipboard is an image of a watercolor vase of flowers and a butterfly on it. Next to these are also a pastel palette, a pencil, scissors, a cup of colored pencils, a watercolor palette, a book with pictures of butterflies and information about butterflies and an Art makes me smart butterfly booklet.
  • A boy and a girl in front of a window. Taped on the window is two papers together. The paper on the right is of a drawing of a wooden old grandfather clock with with golden numbers on a wood floor with a wall that has swirls on it. The paper next to it is a extension of the background wood floor with the wall and swirlies on the wall. The two kids have mouse drawings cut out and taped onto pencils and are holding the mice over the grandfather clock paper
  • Dark wood table that has art makes me smart beatrix potter unit study cover with a photograph of beatrix potter on it. Next to this is an outline of a Beatrix Potter painting of two mice hiding behind a sugar cup on a shelf. One mouse is wearing a white dress with a white hat, the other has a small hat on it. Parts of it are colored in with pencil. Next to this is the same painting but with color. This one is the original. Also on the table is a tea cup with a orange drink in it, a cup with colored pencils, a book that has beatrix potter illustrations on the top, a glass vase with flowers in it, two tea pots with flower designs on them and another beatrix potter original illustration that has a mouse on a white and pink fabric with flowers on the fabric.
  • Two boys wearing handmade South African style masks with one boy peeking out of mask and smiling. One mask with bright yellow, red, green, brown, pink, and white colors on a black background and the other mask of the boy peeking out with red, green, yellow, and orange bright colors on a brown background. Behind the boys is a banner of hand drawn international flags hung up on the wall.
  • A girl sitting at a dark brown wood table drawing on a paper that has a watercolor thistle branch on it and she is writing on labels next to it. Also on the table is a booklet titled with rainbow bold art makes me smart text in all caps with the same watercolor thistle. Also on the table is a clipboard with a painting of thistles and butterflies, a jar of water, a watercolor palette, paint tubes, and tin cups filled with colored pencils and colored markers
  • Child painting a blue whale on watercolor paper on a brown wood table. Also on the table is an outline of a whale, pencils, paintbrushes, rulers, books, pages with text and pictures, and a jar of water with a paintbrush in it.
  • Kid drawing Statue of Liberty painting. The drawing is the statue of liberty from her chest up. She is painted in with light green watercolor with darker green for shading. The background is a blue color. The outline of the statue of liberty is black pastel. This is drawn on a dark wood table with watercolor palette, colored markers in a basket, containers full of colored pencils and colored markers, black sharpie pen, and paint palette.
  • On a dark wood table a girl is drawing on a design that has a blue paper background with a drawn on woman in an old french aristocratic dress wearing earrings. She is shown from her shoulders up taking over most of the paper. She also has lots of paper scrolls glued on for her wig. Next to her is a design that has an orange paper background with a drawn man in old french aristocratic clothing shown from his chest up also taking over most of the paper with glued on white paper scrolls for his wig. Next to the designs on the table are strips of white paper, scissors, a glue stick, a mini French flag, and a pastel crayon pallet.
  • Girl in blue dress with a blue bow in her hair holding two girl paper cut outs in front of her face. One girl has blond short hair and light skin and has a light green dress with a cut skirt and blue wings and red shoes. The other paper doll has dark brown curly hair and light brown skin and is wearing a light pink regency dress with white gloves.
  • Art Makes Me Smart leonardo da vinci packet with picture of the Mona Lisa and a picture of da vinci's last supper and information page talking about Leonardo da Vinci next to it. These are sitting on dark wood table with watercolor palette next to it and a paintbrush.
  • A brown wood table with a black spiral bound notebook that is titled art makes me smart in bold rainbow font in all caps. Under it is swirly black text that says anatomy adventures with a circle that has light blue in the background and a pink drawing of the brain in the middle. Next to this is a drawing of a neurotransmitter with labels on it and titled reference picture. Higher up on the table is a painting of a neurotransmitter. Also on the table is a watercolor palette, a tin cup of colored pencils, a paintbrush, and a open book with pictures in it.
  • A woman and a girl outside looking at a nature journal book with drawings of a bird and a cat in it. The woman is wearing a white shirt and the girl is wearing a red shirt with embellishments on it.

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Inside, you’ll get the complete Claude Monet Artist Study from Discover Artists, one of the signature courses inside the Art Makes Me Smart Membership.

You’ll explore Monet’s life, enjoy a picture study gallery, use Reader’s Theater, discover curated books, and more—all designed to pair beautifully with the curriculum you’re already using.

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The Life of Monet

Press play and join Hannah as she introduces your family to Claude Monet and the story behind his remarkable art. Discover the experiences that shaped his life, inspired his work, and helped him become one of the world’s most beloved artists.

It’s a simple, engaging way to make art history feel less like a list of facts—and more like a story worth remembering.

Create a Master Copy

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Follow along with Hannah as she walks you step-by-step through creating a Master Copy.

Remember, the goal isn’t to create a perfect copy, it’s to observe, experiment, and experience Monet’s art in a whole new way.

Supplies Needed:

  • Card stock paper or watercolor paper
  • Paint brushes
  • Watercolor or acrylic paints
  • Cup of water
  • Pencil, for sketching outlines if desired

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  • A boy sitting at a dark wood table drawing a red table in a room with part yellow walls. He is referencing a printed out carl larsson painting that has a boy in a striped blue shirt sitting at a red desk in a red chair. The room the boy is sitting in has yellow walls with a green dresser and white curtains with a mustard yellow floor. The curtains have a vase of flowers in front of them. On the wall is a self portrait of carl larsson. Also on the wall are two other paintings and a small cuckoo clock. Also on the dark wood table that this painting is on top of are scissors, erasure, ruler, watercolor palette, a white plastic container of chalk pastels, and a paper towel
  • A wooden table with a art makes me smart paper booklet that has a self portrait of vincent van gogh on the cover. Next to this booklet is a printed out image of a vincent van gogh painting of sunflowers in a glass vase on a wooden table. In front of both of these is a hand drawn replica of the sunflower painting on a small canvas with pastel chalk. Also on the table are various colors of pastel chalk
  • Boy painting on watercolor of the anatomy of an organ. He is doing this on a dark wood table. Next to the organ watercolor is a Anatomy of the Digestive system paper, a reference organ page for the organ that the boy is drawing, a art makes me smart anatomy adventures booklet, a pencil, a sharpie pen, a plastic container with chalk pastels in it, watercolor palette, a jar of red paint water with paintbrushes, a tin cup, a crumpled paper towel with paint on its edges.
  • Art Makes Me Smart leonardo da vinci packet with picture of the Mona Lisa and a picture of da vinci's last supper and information page talking about Leonardo da Vinci next to it. These are sitting on dark wood table with watercolor palette next to it and a paintbrush.
  • A printed out vincent van gogh's starry night sky with a child's ahnds replicating it on a smaller canvas with chalk pastel. This is on a dark wood table with a watercolor palette and a white chalk pastel.
  • Girl sitting in front of green tall grass with a book that has a page with graphic outlines of various insects and another page with graphic outlines of butterflies. The girl is wearing a blue dress

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