'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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28 июн 2020
