Claude Monet (1844-1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
Find the big shapes | Shape + Tone = F O R M | Find the Perspective | Make the canvas bigger if needed | Softening. We want no hard edges | Clouds = negative space and mid tones.