Monday, April 1, 2024

Copying Manet

 Our watercolor lesson at the Ohr O’Keefe Museum. We drew the image on 1 inch graph paper and then traced it to BFK paper. We had a. Regular  old fashioned color photo. 


The painting is an oil and in the original there’s a woman in a white dress on the left  that flash of white is from my phone camera  



My version .  One of my boats sank but I brought it back with white guoache   


3 comments:

  1. This is interesting, Greeta. I think master copies are really valuable... and this was challenging, especially the water. I think you've really got the sparkle and reflections, especially above the boats. You've got the color down, too. All in all, I like this alot, particularly going from oil to watercolor as successfully as you did.

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  2. Yours is more impressionistic than the Impressionist! Water is so hard to paint imo, but you succeeded!

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  3. Oh, I just assumed this was Alan's painting. Sorry about that Greeta. Now I can see the difference between yours and his. You did a great job with all that impressionistic brushwork. I like the water above the boats and reflections below them - how you've expressed it so differently and so well.

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