Up the Garden Path

In my online art class, Pauline Agnew asks us to use a Monet painting as a reference for an oil pastel. This is quite small, about 6" x 8". It will never dry, so it will need to be framed under glass.The watercolor paper is white and looks blue in the photo. I never worked in this style, so it was fun to stretch a bit! Monet suffered with cataracts late in life, so his later paintings are quite abstract and very contemporary looking. I like the suggestion of flowers rather than depiction of every petal.

Monet Pond

Here is another oil pastel study inspired by Monet's paintings of his beloved lily pond. Oil pastels are great fun to use. They are smooth as warm butter!

© Claudia Rose, Ph.D.