Palos Verdes Art Center - Water Mixable Oil Painting Techniques -Instructor-Deborah E. Giese
Paint Like Monet Class Challenge: Paint One of Monet's 11 Winter Haystacks using Broken Color & Scumbling Techniques
The PVAC 2021 Winter Class session 2021 focused on applying the techniques of Broken Color and Scumbling using winter-themed reference photos of the Impressionist Master painter, Claude Monet. We investigated Monet's painting journey, the Impressionist Movement and how their ideas of color and light and brush stroke techniques revolutionized the art world. Monet painted 25 Haystacks between 1888-1891. He exhibited 15 Haystacks in 1891, all were sold within 3 days which helped Monet acquire artistic and financial success. He devoted the rest of his life painting his water lily series.. Deborah "Debbie" Giese, Instructor
The class artists’ challenge this Winter Session was to paint one of Monet’s 11 Winter Haystacks using Monet’s palette and the technique of Broken Color and Scumbling. Each artist painted a separate Haystack chosen at random from a hat. The class artists painted their interpretation of their chosen Monet haystack incorporating broken color and scumbling painting techniques that were practiced first on other Monet painting projects before tackling the more complicated and multilayered Haystacks (Monet painted up to 12 layers). Take aways: It was learned, that in most cases, every winter haystack painting contained all or most of Monet’s color palette and there were multiple layers needed to get the correct effect. Multiple layers were painted fat-on-lean and dark-to-light and further harmonized with color and value. While some layers were painted wet-on-wet, other layers were added once the paint was tacky/dry enough to paint another layer. Each artist should be immensely proud of their work-I am! I was more than pleased with each artist’s final pieces and delighted to hear that the techniques used during this session, though challenging, may be used in their future works of art.
Paint Like Monet Class Challenge: Paint One of Monet's 11 Winter Haystacks using Broken Color & Scumbling Techniques
The PVAC 2021 Winter Class session 2021 focused on applying the techniques of Broken Color and Scumbling using winter-themed reference photos of the Impressionist Master painter, Claude Monet. We investigated Monet's painting journey, the Impressionist Movement and how their ideas of color and light and brush stroke techniques revolutionized the art world. Monet painted 25 Haystacks between 1888-1891. He exhibited 15 Haystacks in 1891, all were sold within 3 days which helped Monet acquire artistic and financial success. He devoted the rest of his life painting his water lily series.. Deborah "Debbie" Giese, Instructor
The class artists’ challenge this Winter Session was to paint one of Monet’s 11 Winter Haystacks using Monet’s palette and the technique of Broken Color and Scumbling. Each artist painted a separate Haystack chosen at random from a hat. The class artists painted their interpretation of their chosen Monet haystack incorporating broken color and scumbling painting techniques that were practiced first on other Monet painting projects before tackling the more complicated and multilayered Haystacks (Monet painted up to 12 layers). Take aways: It was learned, that in most cases, every winter haystack painting contained all or most of Monet’s color palette and there were multiple layers needed to get the correct effect. Multiple layers were painted fat-on-lean and dark-to-light and further harmonized with color and value. While some layers were painted wet-on-wet, other layers were added once the paint was tacky/dry enough to paint another layer. Each artist should be immensely proud of their work-I am! I was more than pleased with each artist’s final pieces and delighted to hear that the techniques used during this session, though challenging, may be used in their future works of art.
Coca Astey after Claude Monet
“Grainstacks in the Morning-Snow Effect” 1891 25.5” x 39.5” - J. Paul Getty Museum-LA “This was the first time I have closely studied this impressive collection of Claude Monet's Wheatstacks in its entirety. It was a great exercise both in learning from following the choices made by this great Master Painter and then to submit a second version, exhibiting a more personalized interpretation of this same snowy morning. I learned how through Monet's sensitivity to light he astutely incorporated the effective use of Broken Color and Scumbling techniques to achieve the multiple layering of atmospheric changes, in the light, that moved across his Focal Point. I designed the second painting to reflect a later time, during this wintery day, using paint in High Chroma straight from the tube in order to offset the mostly muted, slightly misty atmospheric environment of the original painting Monet created set within a dewy and wet almost monochromatic winter morning which is currently on display at The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.” -Coca Astey, Artist |
Erika Biber after Claude Monet “Haystacks Snow Effect” 1891 25.5” x 36” - National Gallery of Scotland “Claude Monet is one of my favorite artists, so what a great opportunity to learn some of his techniques from our wonderful teacher, Debbie Giese. We mainly concentrated on broken color and scumbling, both skills that are quite challenging for me but definitely worthwhile. I enjoyed completing this painting”.- Erika Biber, Artist |
Doris Granata after Claude Monet
“Stack of Wheat” 1890-91 25.9” x 36.6” - Art Institute of Chicago “Here is my version of Monet’s Haystack I have started with an undercoat of white - yellow for the top part and Cerulean blue - white on the bottom. To mix the other colors I used oranges, reds, blues and white, a lot of experimenting and misses. Since this grain stack would not be there without the people who built it, I focused more on the houses in the background where those hard-working farmers live. I tried to capture the mood of melting snow under a midday sky using Monet’s broken color technique. For me it was very challenging.” - Doris Granata, Artist |