Friday 25 July 2008


She is called Mami.
She lives in the month with more like her and they fight all the days versus other group, who want to come back to the earth to kill everybody so mami have to kill them and she and her group will come back to the earth.

Tuesday 22 July 2008

Camille Monet with child





About the painting


Monet's Argenteuil figure studies are smaller in size and more intimate in mood than his previous work. From 1872 until the time that Camille's illness became serious the home and garden were recurrent themes in his art.Madame Monet and Child is one of Monet's most tender portraits. Sequestered by the wall of roses, the two figures seem oblivious of everything but their work and play. Because of the regularity of pattern and contrast of warm and cool colors, the wall of flowers moves to the forefront of the painting, appearing to almost surround the figure of Camille as she sews. By this time in his career, Monet's technique of broken color can be seen fully developed. Monet has worked large parts of this canvas in trembling flecks of paint. His brush movements, seen in Camille's upswept hair and delicate features express an intimate tenderness. Although the hands are barely suggested, they focus expressively on the point where her needle pierces the white fabric.
Oscar Claude Monet

Claude Monet (French ) also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet borned on November 14, 1840 and died on December 5, 1926.He was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
HIS LIFE
He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. In 1845, his family moved to
Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer. On the first of April 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts. He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.
On
28 January 1857 his mother died. He was 16 years old when he left school, and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.
When Monet traveled to Paris to visit
The Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw. Monet was in Paris for several years and met several painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. One of those friends was Édouard Manet.
In June 1861 Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in
Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment, but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Marie-Jeanne Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew, may have prompted his aunt on this matter. Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

Monday 21 July 2008

wEeKenD!!


On Saturday we went on an excursion to London.
I think it was the best day on the weekend because we went to Madame Tussauds.It was really interesting.My friends and I took a lot of photos with a lot of important persons like actors, politicians......
Then we went shopping but we had little time to buy so I couldn't bought many things.
When we arrivd at Queenswood we had the Disco.I liked the music, I danced a lot with my friends.It was funny!!!

Friday 18 July 2008

ExCuRsIoN!!!!

Hi!!!!!
Yesterday we went to an excursion to London.
At 9 o'clock we left Queenswood.
On the bus I was sleeping all the time because I was very tired.
When we arrived to London we went on a tour similar to last week.
We had to answer other questions about the trip as well.
We had free time to have lunch and we went to ''Starbucks'' and I bought a hot chocolate very, very good!!!!!!
After that we went to a ship called HSM Belfast.It was very big, but It smelled really, really bad.We were on the boat until half past three.
When we left the ship we took a lot of photos.
About four o'clock we came back Queenswood.





Monday 14 July 2008

WeEkEnD!!!


Hello everybody!
Last Friday morning we had lessons like every day and in the evening we had an assembly.We went to the theather because there were some performances.
Juniors did a frightening but funny performance and seniors did ''Romeo and Juliet's'' performance.
Some students recived some awards.
It was really funny, after that we did the activities like every evening, I did art and crafts.
On Saturday we went to Cambridge on an excursion.
It was a free day for us to go shopping.
My friends and I went to eat at Mcdonal's and we bought lots of things.
At six o'clock we arrived at Queenswood and we dressed up for the disco.
It started at eight o' clock.We danced a lot although the music wasn't really good.
On Sunday some students went to Thorpe park but other students like me stayed here, doing some activities like softball, football, swimming, computers, tennis, art, tennis table...

In the first sesion I did softball, in the second, after I had lunch I did tennis, although I didn't play for a long because I was tired.In the third sesion I did art and crafts.

Bye dear!

Friday 11 July 2008

LoNdOn!

Yesterday we went to London on an excursion.
When we arrived there we were divided in differents groups, each one with their own guide.
We had to answer some questions in a handout which our teacher had given us the day before.
we walked around London and we saw very interesting places in there.
After that we went to the Tower of London.It was amazing.
Then we came back to Queenswood.
The best thing was that it didn't rain and it was sunny and hot!!

Wednesday 9 July 2008

Queenswood


Hello everybody!
Last Sunday I arrived at Queenswood. I met a lot of people of diferents nationalities.
The school is fantastic.It is very big and very nice.Here it is always rainning and it is very cold.
The food is very bad but these are only the two things that I don't like so much.
The teachers are very kind and nice and they help you whenever I need.
Yesterday, we went to the bowling hall, it was really amazing.

Love,

Patricia from Spain