10. Manet-Monet-Sisley Assignments
Part I - The Artists and Foundational Principles
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Manet: Journaling.
Establish an Artist Journal, which is different from a sketchbook used just for drawing.
An Artist Journal has sketches, plus word sketches, lyrics, poems, notes on philosophy, methods, reflections, and or photographs; it is a place for 'my favorite things.'
Do a series of visual studies and word sketching on some of your favorite objects.
Taking all of your experience, create a still life with "a few of my favorite things."
Notice how working on something personal affects you.
Monet: Paint a Series
Look at his different series to gain insights.
Set up a still life, divide the canvas into 4 quadrants.
Paint the still life 4 times yet under different lighting conditions.
Repeating the same subject under different lighting is to gain mastery over it.
Note in your Journal what the changes were and why.
Sisley: Copying, Using, Making
Select a high rez image.
Copy a Sisley landscape, repeat his surface integrity as closely as possible.
Use a Sisley landscape, 'copy' the scene, change the scene or surface integrity, yet use some of the elements.
Design a landscape inspired by the elements you resonated with.
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11. Renoir-Morisot-Degas Assignments
Renoir: Fall in Love
Select a high rez image.
Select and study a Renoir piece; note what you find delightful about it.
Consider copying a small section from his work.
From your insights gained and in your Journal, reflect upon what is beauty.
Write your own definition of it.
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12. Sargent -Chase -Hassam Assignments
Sargent – A 3-step Layering Painting Process
There is a freshness in his work. Copy or use one of his works. Simplify it first.
Do it in stages. After the drawing, layout the 3 layers of paint
• Layout a thin watercolor-like wash as the foundation
• Add a layer of Intermediate paint.
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13. Weir-Twachtman-Cassatt Assignments
Weir - Paint your legacy.
• Let your nature reveal nature.
• What do you want to leave for others? Draw or paint a legacy landscape.
• Painting is an extension of yourself. Focus on the brushstrokes and light, the light on the subject at the moment, or the light within your heart, often it is a...
