Monet: Boats at Argenteuil
The original.
One of my versions. Simpler. Still nice. You can do a painting like this, or a better one, in 4 hours with my instruction.
Did you know that 92.5 % of Monet's boats are exactly the same shape?
A boat.
By Monet.
I didn't know that either, until I learned this painting. Does that mean Monet couldn't paint boats? Not at all, he was a master draughtsman. But he knew how to tell a story in images, and his boat paintings are not really directed at the boating fanatic. There's a shop just up the road from my studio which caters to the boat-watchers. Everything you want to know about boats.
I have written an ebook which shows you this lesson, step by step.
Including the boats.
Read a free sample of the ebook or buy it at : www.smashwords.com/books/view/488712 or, if you prefer, get the Amazon Kindle version.
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.
