For this project we were assigned an artist and were required to recreate a landscape of our choice in their style. My artist was Claude Monet, a french painter. His style was very focused on the lights and darks of everyday scenery, like the pond in his backyard. His paintings were done with very small, light strokes. he used a lot of white in his paintings to push the highlights of his pieces. For this project, I took a very basic picture of a boardwalk leading to a beach and recreated it using his style. I used his impressionist style of small brush strokes and pushing the values and am very happy with how it tured out. The most difficult part of this project was figuring out how to create the plants, and also getting the values of the bridge correct. Monet also used a lot of bright colors in his pieces, so I tried to incoorperate that into the sand and the bridge. If Monet could see this painting I don't think he would recognize it as his style unless someone told him, but given the fact that this was my first attempt it wouldn't be a total insult to him. If I had to do the painting again I think I would change the bridge somehow. I am not a huge fan of how the perspective of it turned out. I also feel like I could deepen the darker values to really push those more. This is just an example of a Monet painting to get an idea of his style. I used this picture a lot to figure out how to place my highlights and how to create his "blurry" effect.
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