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Okay! So I've started on my monet-ish picture. I'm afraid that copious quantities of nasal drip and many other unpleasant cold-like symptoms have gotten in the way of me getting very much done on it, but here is what I have so far.

Oh. Did I tell you my experiment? On Monet? No? Oh-I'll will tell you. I picked out ten on Monet's paintings that I liked, and opened each in photoshop. With the eyedropper tool, I randomly picked ten colors from each painting. Matching it with prismacolor pencils, I made a sampler for each painting. See?




Here, I have separated each of the horizontal bars and stuck them onto each painting, so you can see and compare for yourselves. The reason for this experiment was to wrap my head around his color palette.











So what have I learned from this experiment, you ask? Plenty. For one thing, Monet rarely used pure black. He tried to avoid it, because really, if you look carefully, something that looks black is almost never really black.

Also, even though he had a wide color range, particular colors appear again and again in all of his paintings, such colors are: periwinkle, baby blue, henna, cream, limepeel, pumpkin, peach, and a dull olive green.

So without further ado, here's the start on my picture.
...and that's it for today. Check back for updates. Thanks for stopping by!