Monet: Haystacks: White Frost, sunrise, 1889
Capture the shimmering light of the morning sun in this masterwork by Claude Monet.
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- Entry requirements: None
- Materials: Provided. Bring your sketch book.
- Student Paintings
- What will we learn in this session?
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About this session
Palette
As well as being beautiful paintings in their own right, this series was an exploration of light effects at different times of the day on the same subject.
Monet: Haystacks: Pedagogic material created by Peter Inglis for the Gallery Quality Painting sessions at Inglis Academy.
One of my interpretations 91 x 120cm.
35 x 45 cm, the standard sized canvas we use in class, hung in the Inglis Classical frame.
What will we learn in this session?
- Atmospheric perspective
- Chromaticism
- Glazing
- Grass texture
- Impasto
- Impressionist style
- Monet brush techniques
Capture the effects of light on the grass.
Learn how Monet portrayed atmospheric perspective.
Resources
Images from the TV series "The Impressionists" (2006).
Student Paintings
Another Dream Team who are having great fun in our Gallery Quality Painting
stream (L to R): Linda - Naomi - Cherry - Louise - Vendula.
Look at the intensity of colour vibration creating using complementary colours - particularly in the mountains.
Vendula's Monet: Haystacks.
Cherry's painting brought in the feeling of a wintry morning with snow and frost laying thick on the mountains.
Linda used the technique of dragging a fan brush across impasto to tear the paint, creating complex textures in the grass.
Naomi's Monet created the impression of shimmering heat.
Naomi and her Monet.
Louise's Monet had an intense Turner/Monet-like luminosity in the sky which is almost impossible to capture with a camera. The Art Gallery of N.S.W. has a Monet seascape with a similar palette and execution, and it lights up the entire gallery!
Therese's Monet Haystack painting
Annie's version.
An excellent start! Full of energy and colour.
Resources
This short video contains a good overview of the haystack series.
