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Applied Polyfilla to board and worked in gouache. Took my time over this up to 4-5 hours over a number of days. Ended up with tired eyes but enjoyed doing it.
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The Art of the Garden
Part 2 - Share my work
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This is the Master
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I’ve done this on on board. Poor Monet he worked hard and did many of his lilies paintings, all in different designs & lights. I’ve tried to get his best. He used silver in his palette for his paintings but am not sure where it was applied so left it out.
Texturing it first made it difficult to paint on it as the acrylics often blotted out the texture beneath. It’s been a lot of work but I’ve enjoyed it & learnt a lot doing this piece.
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It's the best I can do, so I think I'm done! Fascinating to do and a task I'd like to repeat, one day! The first problem was choosing which online version was nearest to the original. I decided to use acrylics as I have used them a bit for painting models and I had only just got my first starter set of oils.
Colour matching and mixing were the most difficult for me. I started with the sky, and couldn't find a tone until I decided that VG must have used some white in the mix. The orange hues were the most difficult to find and I couldn't really match VG's subtle tones. Alice' suggestion of using cut out circles to isolate colours really helped.
It was really difficult deciding the painting order, I'd start and then realise that some strokes were under a different colour, so back to the palette!
This is how the real thing looks, but it's not the version I used as a model and the colours are different!
And this is mine!
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I chose this painting because of the joy of the flowers. First mistake.. it is some years since I used canvas board and I forgot to prime it! This is only the second time I have used oils and I’m not sure that I will use them for the next project. So, on to the painting. I found it hard to get the flowers etc in the right place despite spending a long time drafting them out. Overall, I can recognise what it is supposed to be, so that is a win, even if it is not quite like the original.
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Work in progress, with acrylics on modelling paste on oil paper for texture. Colour matching is really hard and deciding which sections to paint first.
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Good to have something sedentary to do on such a hot day. 47 degrees in the greenhouse!
I started by applying scrunched tissue to the lower part of the painting, to enhance 3D. The painting is mainly gouache with a little watercolour. I used masking fluid in the sky. The photo shows up bits that I need to improve, but not today.
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I found this enormously difficult to do. I kept getting lost and I was massively torn between Van Gogh's energy and 'getting it right'. This is acrylic on acrylic paper. My intention was to do away with modelling paste and tissue paper and go for it with thick applications of paint, but I was too timid in the end. I may revisit this with modelling paste, I think. And also tissue paper. I suspect repeated studies in different media will help me understand things like layering and density of colour. As for getting the colour right, I think it will be years before I even come close! Any advice will be gratefully received.
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Modelling paste & acrylics. Textures I think are not in exact places. I wasn’t sure if I should outline face in a darker shade. Have drawn & left it in pencil.
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I had a go at this Klimt which is in the Belvedere in Vienna. His was oil but mine’s the humble marker and gel pen.
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Oops just realised that my choice of piece to copy is the same as Alice's. The outcome however is very different. I will never make a forger. I covered my board with textured plaster and then got stuck in. I started by using acrylic but found it dried too quickly on my palette so I switched to my favourite paint i.e. gouache and found that much better to use.
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These are my tissue and polyfilla texture tryouts with soft pastels, oils, acrylics and watercolours. As I had a couple of spare patches of each type I used other colours with the two media I thought produced the best effect, oils and acrylics. I only used one brush and despite cleaning it many times I still could not rid it of the Sap Green tinge!
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This is my attempt to copy a garden painting by Bonnard. It's on oil painting paper 23cm X 30cm using water mixable oils. The original is 44cm X 53 cm. I copied it from the book "Bonnard at Le Cannet but couldn't reproduce the vibrant yellow in the book illustration using Cadmium yellow pale Hue. Perhaps the clue is in "pale"and maybe I need to invest in more than one yellow!
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My attempt at the patches last week. Copying from the masters this week.
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I've decided to work with acrylics for my learning from the masters piece, so I've been testing out colours and tones on a long strip of card with both tissue paper and modelling paste. I'm still not sure which texture to go for. I might end up doing one tissue paper and bare board and the other modelling paste and bare board and see how they both compare.
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Really interesting to see how the different media work on tissue paper and modelling paste.
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Got myself equipped with all the bits and pieces, modelling paste and oil paints - new to me, and had a go at this task. Interesting for me who knows nothing at all about how things work to see the intensity of colour on some surfaces. Thought the modelling paste was easiest to work on, and the tissue paper the least satisfying as too much liquid flattened the texture. Enjoyed playing, now to have a go at copying a Master- a much more daunting task!!
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Alice, I hope you don’t mind me posting this. I had not realised that the image would appear until I had posted it. I thought only the link would appear.
In looking for a painting for this project I came across two videos which some of you may have seen but, if not, you might find interesting. The first one, which is short, was poignant I thought. I had not envisaged Monet painting with the sound of WW1 gunfire within his hearing. It is an RA YouTube video about Monet’s Agapanthus Triptych
The second one, which is quite long, (I particularly enjoyed the first part with beautiful uplifting cinematography of the gardens at Giverny) is Documentary: Painting the modern garden from Monet to Matisse, 2016 RA Exhibition
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Here is my go at Klimts Apple tree 17cm square acrylics on canvas, the wife likes it, that's a first.
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