Renoir: Garden 1875
Renoir: Garden, 1875
This painting is a delightful example of Renoir's impasto work. It is a paen to the creative force as expressed in nature and features his wife and child at the focal point of his own garden.
About this session
This charming Renoir garden is, unusually, not well documented. We might assume that the woman and child are the same as we see in Renoir: Woman with a Parasol in the Garden, 1875?
- Title: Garden, 1875
- Creator: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Date Created: 1875
- Style: Nineteenth-Century European Painting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Physical Dimensions: ???(w) x ???(h) mm
- Original Title: Jardin ?
- Type: Painting
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- Medium: Oil on canvas (?)
Materials
- Provided: Canvas, paint, pencils, brushes & aprons
- BYO: Sketch book
Resources
What will we learn in this painting?
- Impasto
- Impressionistic flower beds
- Renoir's feathery brush strokes
Tone
A warm tone, then a sketch painting to capture the rhythms and big shapes.
Blocking
No blocking in this painting.
Texture
The darkest tones are applied in a loose, improvisatory fashion.
Then the greens and blues.
Mixing your impasto colours.
Marbled colours help with our chromaticism.
Detail
In the lesson I will demonstrate the brushstrokes used to create the illusion of detail and communicate a sense of movement and energy.
Exemplar
My finished interpretation of the Renoir. Examine this in the class to see details of the impasto and brushstrokes.
Framed.
