How Monet's Palette Developed: Painting The Air Itself
'Haystacks, Midday' (1890) is a great example of Claude Monet's mid-career work, and shows the effects of his decision to stop using earth colors and black and move completely to an Impressionist palette.
In this video I explore his new way of mixing by creating a color study of this painting, and show you how he achieved his amazing range of beautiful colors. His friend, the painter Manet, said at the time that Monet had learned to paint the color of the air itself! And as we will see, he must have been very attuned to the effect that light has coming from both the sky and reflecting from the ground.
The palette I use is:
cobalt blue;
viridian green;
emerald green;
cadmium yellow;
cadmium orange;
vermilion (which I mix from cadmium red and cadmium orange);
alizarin crimson;
cobalt violet;
ultramarine blue;
white;
As always I will be using two-color mixing, and key mixes include:
1. cadmium orange and emerald green
2. cadmium yellow and ultramarine blue
3. cadmium yellow and cobalt blue
4. cadmium yellow and cobalt violet
5. vermilion and ultramarine blue
6. cadmium yellow and ultramarine blue
You can fing the original of the painting here: nga.gov.au/monetjapan/detail....
This is the last in the current series on Claude Monet, but as always, if you have any questions or observations, please drop them into the Comments which I always look forward to reviewing.
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Very underrated channel, this is closer to the James Gurney video quality teaching than most other i've seen on youtube
So helpful to watch you mix the colours and see how we can try to do the same thing. WJ
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3 жыл бұрын
hi WJ I hope you are ok and finding time to paint.
i have to say thank you about your clear and simply speeking about colour mixing.meaning about mine mistake..oh what a joy to start again in your way.many many thanks sir.
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2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for such an encouraging comment. O am so pleased I a, helping you.
Color mixing is amazing!!!
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3 жыл бұрын
thanks for your enthusiasm. I find mixing and watching others mix therapeutic. The same as music.
VACINA!!!
Wonderful, what surface are you using to mix the paints on is it a white board ?
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9 ай бұрын
No just white cartridge paper with a coat of white acrylic paint
Wonderful presentation, thank you!
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3 жыл бұрын
it is a pleasure Bobby.
Thank you Ian I really do have to play a bit more you make it look so easy hope we can all get back soon
Fabulous again Ian! I hope I can get the same affect with my acrylics as I still have not got the courage to use oils. Keep safe and all the best. Hope to see you in September. Jo
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4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jo
Yellow and violet amazing combo. Does it work as well with other violet than cobalt violet or are they too strong.
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2 жыл бұрын
Other violets have more of a blue bias so you get slightly less chromatic colours when mixed with warm yellows such as cadmium yellow and beautiful chromatic greys when mixing with lemon yellow.
Very nice presentation! What paint brand are you using?
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2 жыл бұрын
Hi Robert, thanks for you comment I am using a cheap brand called Georgian paints by Daler-Rowney