Kids react to 'A Regatta on the Grand Canal' | One Painting, Many Voices | National Gallery

I think this painting is a bit like Where's Wally? A regretter on the gang canal. There's this like funky boat with like red and white. It makes me wonder. Some of the masks look creepy. My favourite thing is the little granny. Take one, picture, action! It's called A Regretter on the Gang Canal. I think it should be called The Great Race Track, The Great River of Racing. The artist who painted Regretter on the Grand Canal is Canaletto. I think it was painted around the 1700s. It's a painting of lots of boats on a canal in Venice. Venice is one of the cities in Italy. The houses, they look like they're floating on water, but I'm guessing that there's actually some pillars underneath them that keeps them like sturdy. It's a picture like about the gondola racing. In this festival, people show off how rich they are by bringing boats that are very well decorated. There's like loads of people sticking their heads up with windows. I think they're happy and they're enjoying themselves. It seems quite warm and like sunny because on the side I can see like a bit of light shining. The right side of the painting has shade, but the left-hand side has sunlight. The clouds are actually used in yellow paint and you can actually see that with the part that's facing the sun. The buildings, they just go like this. When we start perspective in school, we would do like a dot in the middle and then lines going out and I feel like what the dot would be is the end of the canal. And then the more you go in, the more it comes into like a triangle shape. There's some like dark small boats that I feel like they're racing and the other ones are just like watching to show off their boats. There's two boats that's tipping because they want to go faster. And when boats go fast on water, it leaves a trail. They're standing up, crouching a bit, but leaning forwards to like make a force to push the boat forwards. I would think they're just going to flip over. I've been on a boat on the London Canal. It made me sick. A bit seasick? No, about a bit canal sick. I think the water looks really different when you're zoomed in as it looks more like paint strokes. It kind of looks like scales on a fish. For me, what catches my attention the most is kind of just the middle part of it. And I could see a bridge there. I think the finish line might be the bridge. Maybe they get money. Maybe they get a trophy. And maybe they get to be famous. We are famous now. Yeah, now we're on TV. So there's this like funky boat with like red and it's a bit white. The patterns is kind of weird. They look like the ocean's waves sort of. I can see two men looking at the buildings but not the race because they're facing the wrong way. They're lying down and looking at something. Maybe because they saw something even more interesting than the race. I can see that boy holding a stick to paddle the boat. I think he's different to them because his clothes aren't very fancy. And I think he's also a taxi driver. A taxi boat driver. It looks like he's working hard to stand up. It looks like he's very tired. I can almost see like someone sleeping or lying down. Or maybe he's dead. It looks like he has a ninja mask. Yeah, some of the masks look creepy. It might be Halloween. It might. It might. Wait, like you don't, you never know. I can see someone with like something white and they're doing this. Oh yeah, he's using a cloth. I win that race. I can see a group of people. I think it looks like a family because they're all lunch together. And it seems like the youngest one in the picture is looking at the dog smelling the thingy. Little white dog. Maybe it's fluffy. And he has a little bit of shade on the front part. Because there's a building in front of him. So he's going around flapping his tail and trying to find food. He's probably going to find some pasta or some pizza. I can see a little granny because it has a blonde hair and a little hat. He's smaller than everyone else. So I think it's a child. If you go that way, there's a little monkey. No, that's a poodle. It's a cat. Monkey, there. I can see some sculptures on that staircase, especially on the bottom right. It's probably like a lion or tiger. That looks like a monkey standing on a cat. I feel like a king or a queen would probably live there. Because I can see all the gold and I can see the white and it feels very royal. One of them has green and gold fabric on the balconies. The faces of the people on the balcony, they're more detailed. But the faces of the people further away, they're just like a coloured dot and a black hat. Maybe that's the smallest the paintbrush can get. Yeah, maybe. I think this painting is a bit like, where's Wally? And I think that man standing behind the cloth is Wally because he's hiding. I've got no idea why he's staring at the cloth. Maybe he likes the decorations of the cloth. These little town looking things coming out people's windows, they're probably different colours to represent what team someone supports. We've got mainly all the colours of the rainbow. And some of them even look like country flags. For example, the red one, it looks like a Chinese flag. Where I live, there's a stadium for football. And it kind of reminds me of this because it's so packed and everyone has their own team and everyone's wearing flags, so it kind of reminds me of that. I really like it because I can just close my eyes and picture what it would be like to actually be in that picture. The fact that he painted it so small is amazing. I feel like it's very photorealistic. My favourite thing is the little, little monkey as well as the dog. Take one picture! Ciao!