Monet: Meadow with Poplars, 1875
In this painting we get the opportunity to practice the relaxed arm technique which enables the rapid painting of hundreds of vertical strokes. This gives the effect of swaying grass flowing like a river through the fore and mid-ground.
Here are paintings by students. Everybody gets a good result at Inglis Academy! How is that? Well, the method is so good!
The original. 54.6 x 65.4 cm
In the distance we see tiny haystacks and mountains rendered blue by atmospheric diffraction. The sky gives us the chance to practice blending soft, fluffy clouds.
One of my versions.
Claude Monet 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.
Details from my interpretation
"It was excellent to learn Vincent Van Gogh's techniques in a lovely setting. Go for it Pietro!
" - Giancarlo Mazzella. Van Gogh's Starry Night, May 2014, Kununurra, The Kimberleys, Western Australia.