Monet: Water Lilies 1919, no.2
By painting our own interpretations of Monet's Water Lilies we have a great opportunity to develop our control of hard versus soft textures, all in a swirling world of colour.
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About this session
Monet: Waterlilies, 1919, No.2
Materials
- Provided: Canvas, paint, pencils, brushes & aprons
- BYO: Sketch book
Resources
What will we learn in this painting?
- Chromaticism
- Round Brush
- Nymphae
- Water
We use round brushes for the entire painting.
We begin by sketching in the rhythms and shapes.
This type of creative doodling will work better for you as you develop your basic sketching skills.
This book will teach you how accurately sketch simple and complex shapes in seconds. -
How to Sketch Shapes
Texture mapping is next.
We control the hardness/softness of the texture by varying the pressure of the brush stroke.
Remember the basic brush stroke? Remember how to create many different textures from one basic stroke?
No?
That's why you need to paint some Van Gogh with me.
After mapping the most obvious textures we put in shadows, flowers, and then whatever else we can see.
It's very unlikely you'll capture all of the colours Monet used in your first interpretation. No problem, just paint what you can see!
In the class we use a version painted by myself, as well as the original on my large video screen, which we can zoom in on to examine details.
Some of the beautiful colours in a Monet water Lily painting.
A demo sketch painted in class by myself.
Student Paintings
Student painting.
Student paintings (my demo painting at top)
Imelda decided to paint the Monet in portrait format, which is reasonable because the original is almost square. We routinely "re-compose" the pieces to fit our standard 1.66-1.00 aspect ratio.
Student paintings (my demo painting at top)
Student paintings (my demo painting at top)
