Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Garden at Giverny

The Garden at Giverny
9 x 12
Acrylic and Pastel
Pastel Paper

Ok, well, not what I had intended...
Found a photo my mom took at Monet's actual garden.
My parents went there on a trip to France a few years ago.
How awesome to find those photos now!

The idea was to render a likeness of the photo in pastel.
I started. Got frustrated.
Ready to scrape it...
Didn't want to start all over again,
waste the pastel paper
or time I had already put in it.

So I sprayed what I had done.
Now I really didn't like it,
but thought it had a decent fundamental base
for an underpainting.
I don't even know if you can or should do it.
But I did anyway.
I painted over the drawing.

I'm sorry Mr. Monet...
lol
He would be shaking his head, I'm sure.

We can only get better when we keep practicing!
As the master himself said:

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection
that one finds a way.
So we must dig and delve unceasingly."
-Claude Monet-

Disaster or not...
it's all part of the process.
Monet painted in his garden in the same spot sometimes
4-6 times...
No master go there overnight...
they had amazing work ethic.

One day,
I hope,
it will all come together!








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