有很多我喜欢的艺术家,但印象派画家为我。我爱他们所有人,我的两个喜欢莫奈和梵高。我认为自己或多或少的一个艺术家,我油漆主要是抽象的(见我的抽象演示),但享受绘画印花,风景,和其他的事情。我描绘了一幅莫奈的再生产的艺术家花园和梵高的咖啡馆,我喜欢极大,极具挑战性。
当我遇到参考照片,马里昂已经访问莫奈的花园在吉维尼,我欣喜万分。这是油漆的机会从一个参考的照片,而不是一个实际的副本莫奈的画作之一。我选择了莫奈的桥,我一直喜欢他的画,所以我想试着做我自己的版本。然后我决定我不真的想要复制它,我想让它自己。
我总是画在水溶性油,最近我开始用丙烯画作画,我认为这是一个不错的挑战以及绘画。在这种循序渐进的演示可以跟随我的画的发展从开始到结束。
我画一个14 x18“画布使用2”洗擦。我看看我的参考照片,然后在莫奈的原始。它的美,着实令我大吃一惊。他的颜色流在一起像诗。我使用一个有限的调色板从丙烯酸对我都是新的。我用温莎牛顿“油漆和只有基本的颜色,再加上一个额外的蓝色、绿色和红色。
我研究莫奈的绘画和注意到黑暗的背景,所以这是我开始的地方。我蘸调色刀在一些烧棕土和深红色,做一点混合,然后开始躺在背景颜色。
我混合一些天蓝色和白色一起一点点的天空。我不知道我想要一个天空,但是如果没有我可以去克服它。我然后带一些温莎蓝色的小镉黄深色调和混合蓝色绿色的绿色植物和水。
我也的东西就像一座桥,知道它会消失后,为了让我觉得我需要的桥。它现在看起来不是很像,但它会过来,我希望。
与丙烯酸到目前为止我很高兴,很快就干,我能够在其他层层没有等待。我的油漆保持湿润我自制的调色板。(感谢丙烯酸米歇尔的提示如何让这个铝面盘上,两块湿海绵和蜡纸分层,然后与另一层的蜡纸。)当我需要休息时,我用顶部和去。
我继续在我的颜色。我的面板由烧棕土、镉红,温莎蓝色、黄色、镉sap绿色和白色。我层在背景与烧棕土混合一点一点的红色。我觉得这有点太暗,所以我添加一个触摸的黄色和它开始看起来有点像深褐色。
然后我把我的温莎蓝色,开始在池塘部分分层。我沿着,添加一点黄色给它更多的蓝色绿色的效果。我正在学习马里昂的参考照片,同时看莫奈的版本。我真的不知道我想要这个,我觉得可能太黑了。
我添加一些sap绿色、白色和一些烧棕土与黄色的背景,我想我可能想要一些树木。我希望这是更多的我自己的画,并不想完全复制马里恩的照片或莫奈的画。我一直看着它,觉得我被难住了,接下来该做什么?我想要什么样的树?
我不确定,今天没有太多时间绘画,所以我决定让其余去回到另一个时候,当我感到更加精力充沛的时候除了继续我只是似乎无法获得创造力。
我回到我的画和一个新的前景和开始添加一些树木和树枝。我用烧棕土再次随着红色和黄色cad。我工作一些树叶的绿色颜和永久绿灯与白色。
我尝试添加一些温莎蓝色与绿党和发现我很难融合。我使用一些玻璃介质,它开始移动更好一点。我仍然不习惯丙烯酸及其快速干燥时间。
处理过油,我更习惯于延长干燥期,更容易混合。我发现自己变得有点沮丧与丙烯酸树脂。我看着照片参考,试图让颜色看起来有点像这张照片。它不是真正的工作。
我继续在烧棕土的背景,红色和黄色试图让有些看起来,莫奈的原始的类型,但这不是工作得很好。所以我去池塘和添加一些天蓝色减轻它在某些地方和继续使用温莎蓝色的阴影。
我还想知道这将如何结束。有些时候我开始画,我知道我想做什么,但是还没来。这似乎是其中的一次。
印象派画家并不容易复制
我沉重的步伐,继续在树上,背景和池塘不知道我真正想做的事情,直到它击中我。背景太暗,树木根本不像我想他们。
我需要一些黄色赭石和尝试混合,在烧棕土我会看到什么类型的影响。赭石有点比黄色的好,不是太轻,不要太黑暗。我过去的背景看,如果我可以突出一些地区。这是好一点,但不多。时间让它去另一天。
我意识到我喜欢印象派画家,他们的工作是不容易复制或甚至在自己的尝试。我认为我自己是一个抽象艺术家,但我确实喜欢其他类型的绘画偶尔的挑战。我开始发现这幅画我,挑战我的绘画风格和丙烯酸的知识我还试图主人。
看到更清楚
现在我开始看东西更清楚了。我继续树,然后开始增加更多的绿色背景。我决定我不想要的天空,我想要一些类型的独头巷道,一个非常私人的小区域,有点像莫奈的原始但不完全。
我继续使用绿色颜料,混合着温莎蓝色和黄色,一只白色。我试图让银桦树的外观,我试图跟随参考照片。我也决定我想要一个枕头在这里某个地方,但在桥的前面还是后面?我现在就做决定之后,我就尽量让柳。
我用绿色颜料与永久的绿灯,镉黄、烧棕土、白。我尝试一些不同的刷子,垂柳并不容易做到,我一点也不知道从哪里开始。我发现在薄薄的一层刷,工作和继续的颜色。哦,亲爱的,一个丑陋的树!我将继续,直到我想出了一些看起来有些体面,我希望。我开始想知道我自己陷入……
我试着把水生植物,是否这就是我想要的。我画的画桥,与sap绿色夹杂着一点温莎蓝色所以我知道这将是定位。我再看一遍池塘温莎蓝色和黄色和取出的赛事集锦。我试着减轻背景与镉黄夹杂着黄色赭石。它仍然看起来不是很像但进展。
添加睡莲
带我一段时间,但是我现在有点像我所做的一切。颜色需要减轻和柳树需要一些工作,但我对这幅画开始感到乐观。
我开始复习的背景树和我做这个决定,我可能想要一个不同的外观。我使用了温莎蓝色和绿色颜料和镉黄的背景树在左边,也有点的颜色添加到右边的树。
不,不喜欢太多,所以我玩绿色,白色和黄色一点,看看会发生什么。我减轻背景更多一些镍黄色和白色一起烧棕土,把一些树叶和地面覆盖黄色。
现在我到达垂柳。我试着给它的树枝,而不是很好;我尝试四舍五入一些,似乎有点更好。
我不喜欢黄色的看起来有那么回暗绿色,有点烧棕土的阴影和小白。我继续,直到我有我想要的。
我添加一些水生植物在柳树前和更低的右边和决定我想要前面的柳树的桥。我现在去池塘,并开始在一些白色的温莎蓝色玻璃。我决定添加一点绿色颜料水。
虽然马里恩的照片没有显示任何睡莲我决定我希望他们在我的绘画。我仍然需要给池塘一些形状,但是明天做这个,因为今天我的画会话结束。
我的莫奈:最后的绘画
我感觉我真的去某个地方,但是现在还不存在。现在我的工作是做我最后的层。我开始与背景树木和树叶。我定义一个树一点温莎蓝色和黄色,白色和永久的绿灯。我用刷子擦效果使用的,我不想让他们看起来太现实。
我将桥稍高;我知道我得再看一遍这一切就绪后,所以我轻易做的。我定义的柳树,绿色和白色的高光。不做我就会喜欢它,所以我走过去,直到我认为我拥有它。不如我,但我会别管它之前我真的毁了它。
接下来是池塘,我过去白色釉和天蓝色。我希望它是明亮的太阳照射下。哦,差点忘了倒影在水里,我拉下的绿化树和草入水中,然后继续玻璃。
我现在在使用sap绿草在前面,永久的亮绿色,白色,和烧棕土。我用暗绿色的睡莲,然后镉红与白色混合的莉莉。我突出了添加到树木和池塘。
可能会有更多我可以做的,但是我要离开它。我喜欢现在的样子,如果我继续有机会我就会失去我试着难以实现。参考照片,莫奈的原始,与我解释两个混合,我完成了。
原文如下：
There are a lot of artists that I like, but the Impressionists are it for me. I love them all, and my two favorites are Monet and Van Gogh. I consider myself more or less of an eclectic artist, I paint mainly abstract (see my abstract demo), but enjoy painting florals, landscapes, and other things as well. I have painted a reproduction of Monet’s The Artist Garden and Van Gogh’s Café, which I enjoyed tremendously and found extremely challenging.
When I came across the reference photos that Marion had taken on her visit to Monet’s Gardens at Giverny, I was mesmerized. Here was the opportunity to paint from a reference photo instead of an actual copy of one of Monet’s paintings. I chose Monet’s Bridge, I had always loved his painting of it so I thought I’d try to do my own version of it. Then I decided I didn’t really want to copy it, I wanted to make it my own.
I have always painted in water soluble oils, recently I started painting with acrylics, so I thought this to be a good challenge along with the painting. In this step-by-step demonstration you can follow the development of my painting from start to finish.
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I'm painting on a 14x18" canvas using a 2" wash brush. I look at my reference photo and then at Monet’s original. The beauty of it astounds me. His colors flow together like poetry. I am working with a limited color palette since acrylics are new to me. I am using Winsor Newton Galeria paint and only have the basic colors, plus an extra blue, green and red.
I study Monet’s painting and notice the dark background, so that is where I start. I dip my palette knife in some burnt umber and crimson red, do a little mixing and then start laying in the background color.
I mix some cerulean blue and white together for a little bit of sky. I am not sure if I want a sky, but if not I can just go over it. I then take some Winsor blue with a little of the cadmium yellow deep hue and mix together for a blue green for the greenery and water.
I also put in something that resembles a bridge, knowing it will be gone over later, in order for me to get the feel I needed of having the bridge in there. It doesn’t look like much right now, but it will come along, I hope.
So far I am pleased with the acrylics, they dry quickly and I am able to layer over other layers without waiting. My paints are staying moist in my 'homemade' palette. (Thanks to Acrylics Michelle for the tip on how to make this from an aluminum pasta pan with a plastic top, layered with wax paper and then two thin wet sponges with another layer of wax paper over those.) When I need a break, I cover the pan with the top and go.
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I continue to go over my colors. My palette consists of burnt umber, a bit of cadmium red, Winsor blue, cadmium yellow, sap green, and white. I layer over the background with a bit more burnt umber mixed with a touch of the red. I find it’s a bit too dark, so I add a touch of yellow and it starts to look a bit like burnt sienna.
I then take my Winsor blue and start layering over the pond portion. As I go along, I add a bit of yellow to give it more of a blue green effect. I am studying Marion’s reference photo and at the same time looking at Monet’s version. I really don’t know how I want this to look yet, and I feel it may be too dark.
I add in some sap green, white and some burnt umber with yellow in the background for where I think I might want some trees. I want this to be more of my own painting, and do not want to totally copy Marion’s photo or Monet’s painting. I keep looking at it and feel as though I am stumped, what to do next? What type of trees do I want?
I am not sure, and today there is not much time for painting, so I decide to let the rest go and come back to it another time, when I feel a bit more energized other than to continue on when I just can’t seem to get that creativity moving.
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I come back to my painting with a fresh outlook and start to add in some trees and branches. I am using burnt umber once again along with the red and cad yellow. I work some leaves with the sap green and also with permanent green light with white here and there.
I try adding in some Winsor blue with the greens and find I am having a hard time blending. I use some glazing medium and it starts to move a bit better. I am still not used to the acrylics and their fast drying time.
Having worked with oils, I am more used to a longer drying period and much easier blending. I find myself getting a bit frustrated with the acrylics. I am looking at the reference photo and trying to get the colors to look somewhat like the photo. It’s not really working.
I continue to keep going over the background with the burnt umber, red and yellow trying to get somewhat the type of look that Monet’s original had, but that’s not working well either. So I go on to the pond and add some cerulean blue to lighten it in some places and continue to use the Winsor blue here and there for shadows.
I am still wondering how this is going to end up. There are times when I start a painting and I know what I want to do, but it just doesn’t come. This seems to be one of those times.
Impressionists Are Not Easy to Copy
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I plod on and continue to work a bit on the trees, background and pond not knowing what I really want to do until it hits me. The background is too dark, and the trees just don’t look like I would like them to.
I take a bit of yellow ochre and try to blend that in with the burnt umber to see what type of effect I would get. The ochre is a bit better than the yellow, not too light and not too dark. I go over the background to see if I can highlight some areas. It’s a little better but not much. Time to let it go for another day.
I realize that as much as I love the Impressionists, their work is not easy to copy or even to try on one’s own. I consider myself more of an abstract artist, but I do like the challenge of other types of painting on occasion. I am beginning to find this painting one that challenges both my painting style and my knowledge of acrylics which I am still trying to master.
Seeing More Clearly
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I'm beginning see things a bit more clearly now. I continue with the trees and then begin to add more greenery to the background. I decide I don't want a sky, I want some type of a cul de sac, a very private little area, somewhat like Monet’s original but not quite.
I continue to use sap green, mixed with a bit of Winsor blue and yellow, a little white here and there. I am trying to get the look of silver birches and am trying to follow the reference photo. I also decide I want a weeping willow in here somewhere, but in front of the bridge or behind? I’ll make that decision later, right now I’ll just try to get the willow in.
I use sap green along with permanent green light, cadmium yellow, burnt umber, and white. I try some different brushes; weeping willows are not easy to do and I haven’t the slightest clue where to start. I find a thin brush that works and continue to layer in colors. Oh dear, what an ugly tree! I will continue to go over it until I come up with something that looks somewhat decent, I hope. I am beginning to wonder what I got myself into...
I try putting in water plants here and there, to see if that is where I want them. I repaint the bridge, with sap green mixed with a bit of Winsor blue so I know where it will be positioned. I go over the pond again with Winsor blue mixed with yellow and take out the highlights. I try to lighten the background with some cadmium yellow mixed with yellow ochre. It still doesn’t look like much but it's coming along.
Adding Lily Pads
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
It’s taken me a little while, but I now kind of like what I've done. The colors need to be lightened and the willow needs some working, but I am beginning to feel optimistic about the painting.
I start to go over the background trees and as I do this I decide I may want a different look. I use the Winsor blue mixed with a bit of sap green and cadmium yellow for the background tree on the left, and also add a bit of those colors to the tree on the right.
Nope, don’t like that too much, so I play with my greens, whites and the yellow a bit to see what happens. I lighten the background more with some cadium yellow and white along with the burnt umber and put in some foliage and ground cover with the yellow.
Now I get to the weeping willow. I try giving it branches, not very good; I try rounding it off some, seems a bit better.
I don’t like the yellow look it has so back to the sap green, a bit of burnt umber for shadows and a little white. I keep going over it until I have the look I want.
I add some water plants in front of the willow and on the lower right-hand side and have decided I want the willow in front of the bridge. I now go down to the pond and start glazing in some white along with the Winsor blue. I decide to add a bit of sap green to the water.
Although Marion’s photo didn’t show any lily pads I have decided I want them in my painting. I still need to give the pond some shape, but will do that tomorrow, for today my painting session is over.
My Monet: The Final Painting
How to Paint Your Own Monet Painting
I feel as though I'm really getting somewhere, but it’s not quite there yet. My job now is to do my final layers. I start with the background trees and foliage. I define one tree with a bit more with the Winsor blue and yellow; the other with white and permanent green light. I use a dabbing effect with my brush, I don't want them to look too realistic.
I move the bridge a bit higher; I know I'll have to go over it again once everything else is in place, so I do it lightly. I define the willow a bit, with green and white for highlights. It’s not doing what I would like it, so I go over it until I think I have it. It's not as good as I would like, but I'll leave it alone before I really ruin it.
Next is the pond, which I go over with a white glaze and a touch of cerulean blue. I want it to be bright as if the sun were shining down on it. Oops, almost forgot the reflections in the water; I pull down the greenery from the tree and grasses into the water, then continue glazing.
I now put in grasses in the front using sap green, permanent light green, white, and burnt umber. I use sap green for the lily pads, then cadmium red mixed with white for the lily. I add highlights to the trees and pond.
There may be a bit more I could do, but I'm going to leave it. I like the way it looks now and if I keep on there's a chance I'll lose the look I tried so hard to achieve. A bit of reference photo, a bit of Monet’s original, mixed with my interpretation of the two, and I am finished.
About the Artist Karen Day-Vath (see website) is a self-taught artist who works in acrylics and oils. She's also a long-standing member of the About.com Painting Forum.
