Monet: Vetheuil, 1879 No.2

This wonderful landscape by Monet conveys the shimmering and energetic feeling of the summer sun on water, buildings and land.

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Monet: Still Life with a Honeydew Melon, 1879 (excerpt)

This session gives us the opportunity to explore Monet's approach to colour vibration, with delicate and simple brush strokes.

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Monet: Water Lilies, 1905 No.5

Beautiful pinks and purples characterise this subtle Monet from 1905.

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About this session

• Title: Monet: Water Lilies, 1905 No.5
• Creator: Claude Monet (1840–1926)
• Date Created: 1905
• Style: Nineteenth-Century European Painting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• Physical Dimensions: 895(h) x 103(w) mm
• Original Title:
• Catalogue No: W1671: Wildenstein (1974) Catalogue raisonné Claude Monet , no. 1671
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Gift of Edward Jackson Holmes

Colour

Basic Palette:

• Cool Red (Crimson)
• Yellow Ochre (Yellow Oxide)
• Yellow (Cadmium Yellow)
• Cool Blue (Pthalo Blue)

Extended palette:

• Lemon Yellow
• Magenta
• Cerulean Blue

Colours created solely with secondary hues

Magenta and Crimson (Primary Red).

Cerulean Blue and Vermilion.

Cerulean Blue and Lemon Yellow (Cool Yellow).

Colurs created with Primary and Secondary hues

Magenta and Pthalo Blue (Primary Blue).

Cadmium Yellow (Primary Yellow) and Pthalo Blue (Primary Blue)

Pthalo Blue (Primary Blue) and Vermilion and Crimson (Primary Red).

My first interpretation, painted using Derivan Artist Acrylics.

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Monet: Woman Reading, 1872

Explore the power of complementary colours as we play pink against green in this romantic Monet.

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Monet: Water Lilies, 1908 No.3

Paint this soft and dreamy Monet which seems to emanate a warm glow!

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