Masterpiece - Nymphéas

Claude Monet was a French impressionistic artist who is mostly famous for his "Water Lilies" series. In the last 30 years of Monet's life, he mainly focused on painting water landscapes which mostly consisted of water lilies. Monet actually created around 250 water lily oil paintings. These pieces we all inspired by his property, were he planted and gardened water lilies and created a peaceful sanctuary.

Balance is a really good principle that is in Monet's water lily paintings, he made sure to spread out the plants evenly, without making them seem to symmetrical and unnatural. Rhythm is a clear principle throughout his pieces, with the repetition of the water lilies that are present in each painting of the series. Unity could also be a principle because it creates a sense of harmony and wholeness that wouldn't be there if the water lilies were missing in the paintings.

In my interpretation of Monet's Water Lilies, I did not take inspiration from just one of his paintings, I look at a few of them and tried to combine them into something in between. I took main elements that flowed through each of the pieces, such as the water lilies and the mostly blue toned water surrounding them,

Something I would try to improve on would be to add more colors into the piece. Monet's paintings were all very colorful and have tons of color mixing and I stayed more with the same few glazes and just created more of a basic blue water scene when I wish I added more color and made it just all more interesting.