Monet: Haystacks: Midday, 1890 | Palette Knife masterclass
Master the palette knife with this iconic Monet's haystack painting and check out the original at the National Gallery in Canberra!
Create a real talking point in your home by completing a trilogy.
- About this session
- Entry requirements: None
- Materials: Provided. Bring your sketch book.
- Student Paintings
- What will we learn in this session?
- Resources
- Book this session
About this session
As well as being beautiful paintings in their own right, this series was an exploration of light effects at different times of the day on the same subject.
Monet: Haystacks: Pedagogic material created by Peter Inglis for the Gallery Quality Painting sessions at Inglis Academy.
What will we learn in this session?
- Palette knife
- Impasto
- Atmospheric perspective
- Chromaticism
My palette for this painting.
Stage 2: Blocked in.
This impasto low chroma blue will serve as the foundation for our greens as well.
This impasto effect relies on a super-delicate touch as is used in decorative cake icing.
Resources
- Hi resolution scan at Google Arts & Culture.
- Go see the original at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. >
- " Monet made a number of quite significant changes to the composition. With the assistance of the diagram based on X-rays, the ghost of these changes in the textured brushstrokes of the painting itself can still be seen. The large stack is about twice its original size, and its shadow was modified accordingly. Simultaneously Monet shifted the smaller stack twice, towards the left, finally cropping it at the edge of the canvas. "
- Alternate title: also known as Meules au soleil, milieu du jour and Grainstacks, midday
- 656 x 1006 mm
This short video contains a good overview of the haystack series.
Images from the TV series "The Impressionists" (2006).
Student Paintings
This was Jessica's third painting at Inglis Academy.
