Oil Demonstration 63An audience with Claude Monet, oil on canvas, 76 x 99 cm (30 x 39")
Claude Monet is painting The Road Bridge at Argenteuil. The sailboat with sails hoisted is
from his painting Sailing at Argenteuil.Pablo Picasso, 50, paints his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter, 22, in 1932, entitled ‘Le Rêve’ (The Dream), oil on canvas
In this work, Femme Dormant (Sleeping Woman) is in the top left background.
you do.” e more challenging, the greater the
satisfaction upon completion.
During an opening night of an art show where
I sold my entry, which was a large sailing yacht
plunging through rough water and the crew
receiving a good shower, a director said, “But
you did it from a photograph.” I refrained from
answering with, “Yes, I was not able to have them
pose for me,” nor did I point out that nearly every
other entry was also painted from a photograph.
Having spent a major part of my past life illustrating
for advertisements combined with my natural bent,
I just cannot stop myself aiming at realism. So, how
do I achieve that by showing appreciation for more
creative techniques and prove my work was not just
slavish copying of photographs?
I decided to pay homage to the techniques
of great artists from the past, with the whole
composition making it clear that I had not just
copied a photograph. Fortunately, the Impressionist