This session gives us the opportunity to explore Monet's approach to colour vibration, with delicate and simple brush strokes.
Read more: Monet: Still Life with a Honeydew Melon, 1879 (excerpt)
Beautiful pinks and purples characterise this subtle Monet from 1905.
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:
Extended palette:
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.
Explore the power of complementary colours as we play pink against green in this romantic Monet.
Read more: Monet: Woman Reading, 1872
Paint this soft and dreamy Monet which seems to emanate a warm glow!
Read more: Monet: Water Lilies, 1908 No.3
Atmospheric Perspective is the name given to the natural effect of distance on colours.
Here is an example from
Three Sisters: Atmospheric Perspective in the Blue Mountains, a scene in the Blue Mountains, about 90 minutes drive west of Sydney.
Let's take a vertical section of this scene in order to more clearly see what nature does to colour.
Notice how the olive green becomes a blue green in the distance! Same trees, same day, different colour.