Introduction Post! :D

 Hi, and welcome to my blog for the ART F200X course!

  My name is Luanne Velasco, and I currently live on campus as a full-time student. Prior to this academic year, I worked at a childcare facility for a little over a year as a lead-teacher, a summer counselor, and this summer as a lead summer group teacher. (The ages ranged from 3 to 12 years old) When I do get some free time, I enjoy reading various kinds of books, being outside nature, and playing tennis with my friends. 

   If I were to describe my relationship with art, I would say it is pretty minimal, as I feel that it does interest me but I do not partake in making my own works.  I do love looking at different individual’s works, as I can appreciate their approaches with their style and ideas, and try to comprehend the meaning. Personally, I am quite a fan of impressionism, and although I’m not quite an artist, I do enjoy painting, watercolouring, and doodling occasionally.

    The artwork I have attached is The Thames below Westminster by Claude Monet. I discovered this painting when I had to recreate it with oil pastels for my high school art course’s final, and I just love the ambiance and simplicity.

Monet, Claude. The Thames below Westminster. 1871. National Portrait Gallery, London. The National Gallery, https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-the-thames-below-westminster