Monet: Camille with Green Parasol, 1876

Paint this charming scene of Monet's first wife Camille, as you see how warm and cool colours work in sunlight and shade.

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• About this painting
• Colour
• What will we learn in this session?:
  1. Monet's brush strokes
  2. Reflected light
  3. Gardens
  4. Tone
  5. Sketching
  6. Rule of 3rds
  7. Texture
  8. Detail (tracing available)
• Student Paintings
• Resources
• Standard Materials

Colour

Learn to see the simplified colour design that makes this Monet so appealing.

Basic Palette

Extended palette:

• Pyrrole Red
• Scarlet Red Light
• Cerulean Blue

Tone

We mix a warm background tone.

Sketch

How to construct a loose charcoal sketch, considering tone and placement.

Tracing is available in this session.

Rule of 3rds

Learn how to use the rule of 3rds to accurately place a complex shape in your painting.

Create a sketch painting using the rule of 3rds.

Tracing is available in this session.

Texture

Texture mapping

Texture mapping

At this stage we glaze the painting.

Detail

About this painting

• Title: Monet: Camille with Green Parasol, 1876
• Creator:
• Date Created: 1876
• Style: Nineteenth-Century European Painting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
• Physical Dimensions: (w) x (h) mm
• Original Title:
• Type: Painting
• Medium: Oil on canvas

Student Paintings

Student painting completed in one session.

Student painting completed in one session.

Resources

• My curated video playlist at YouTube

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• monet
• figure
• floral
• flowers
• sketch painting
• paint monet
• paint floral
• scarlet-red-light
• paint figure
• rule of 3rds
• cerulean-blue
• pyrrole-red
• paint gardens

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