Studying Henri Rousseau

We have been studying the paintings of Henri Rosseau over the last few weeks. This was the children's favourite painting at the National Art Gallery, so we were excited to learn more about his other paintings. However the children did not enjoy looking at a lot of his other paintings as a lot of them were too dark and mysterious for them, the one below(Surprised) being one of his lighter-hearted ones.

Jude's jungle study.
Niamh's Jungle painting.

Eden's painting was done with oil pastels and watercolours.

A Hampton Court Palace inspired drawing by Eden

Eden drew this after seeing the ladies dressed at Hampton Court Palace. I enjoyed seeing the detail she had captured.

Sunflowers - part 2

Eden's seedling was the first to exit the soil, and so she went running around the garden in excitement, but a few days on they are all out, and they're all looking strong.