Join us tomorrow, September 15, for another fun live chat on YouTube. We'll be addressing Placing Images! 2 PM EasternMost artists paint a subject then move on to something else, but in our history many master artists often would paint the same subject many times, giving each a new
interpretation. For these artists, it wasn't so much just the subject that intrigued them, but what was happening to the subject visually.
French Impressionist Claude Monet was one of these. We know that he painted the same portion of Rouen Cathedral at least thirty times, each painting having a different color or light
or weather interpretation. He studied grain stacks from the same intention, producing at least twenty-five paintings in that series, each showing Monet's expression of color interpreting the effects of light . Here are six of them. (Click on the image for a larger view.)
Monet's work is a prime example of composing with color beyond using it as a describer. This means looking for what color can do.
Here's a starter to get you thinking:
1. Look at each of Monet's haystacks above, what is the hue of the hay doing against the hue of the sky?
Is the hue doing the same thing in all of them?
2. What is the value of the shadow side of the stacks doing against the value of the sky? Is the value doing the same thing in all of them?
3. What is the intensity doing to the hue within the overall composition of each of these? Is intensity playing the same role in each of them?
Enjoy every minute of your weekend!
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Happy Painting,
Dianne
dianne@diannemize.com
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