Renoir: Woman with a Parasol in the Garden, 1875
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About this session
This is Renoir's own garden, which he left in rather a wild state!
- Title: Woman with a Parasol in a Garden
- Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Date Created: 1875
- Style: Nineteenth-Century European Painting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Physical Dimensions: 650(w) x 545(h) mm
- Original Title: Femme avec parasol dans un jardin
- Type: Painting
- External Link: www.museothyssen.org/en/thyssen/ficha_obra/832
- Medium: Oil on canvas
Materials
- Provided: Canvas, paint, pencils, brushes & aprons
- BYO: Sketch book
Resources
What will we learn in this painting?
- Chroma
- Composition
- Impasto
- Impressionist Style
- Floral Painting
- Round Brush
Tone
Looking at the bottom right corner of the original we can see the canvas has been toned with a warm grey.
Blocking
Blocking in the darks first
Blocking in the ochres and greens
Texture
Adding the flowers and leaves
Detail
There are two figures in the midground, painted rather loosely.
Closeup of the many gorgeous flowers in the foreground.
My finished interpretation of this Renoir.
Tweaked and framed.
Student paintings
These student paintings demonstrate yet again how much knowledge of style a passionate art lover has locked up - my teaching methods merely unleash what is within!
So the first requirement to paint well is a love of art. Love of colour, texture, edges, softness, poetry, music...
Helen's Renoir - her first Renoir!
Dora's Renoir.
Elizabeth's Renoir.
Narelle's Renoir.
