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| Cliffs at Dieppe(original painted in 1882) , Copy by Mary Payne , oil on canvas |
Before I did original art work, I started out by doing copies of famous master's works in oils.
I sold many but I kept about half for my own collection . This is a copy I did before I realized that doing landscapes was missing the incentive of being out in nature. For me, it is more difficult and unsatisfying to copy an outdoor scene than any other kind of painting.
The sheer rise of the white chalk cliff, crowned by an old stone house with a red tile roof, intrigued Monet in its contrast to the placid shore below. He painted the beach in pale tones of pink, blue, and celadon green, roughing in the forms of the bathers with no more than a single stroke of black or gray.
Claude Monet continued to be intrigued by nature's rugged cliffs.
All of the copies I have done served me in teaching me technique and composition. Many that I sold have only a record with film, not pixels, so those I will not be able to share.
Below is a copy of the original painting by Claude Monet posted on "how stuff works.com".
The Cliff at Dieppe by Claude Monet is an oil on canvas (26x32-1/4 inches) housed at Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland
The Cliff at Dieppe by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted The Cliff at Dieppe in 1882. Through the course of the summer, Monet regularly made the short journey north along the Normandy coast from Pourville to Dieppe.The sheer rise of the white chalk cliff, crowned by an old stone house with a red tile roof, intrigued Monet in its contrast to the placid shore below. He painted the beach in pale tones of pink, blue, and celadon green, roughing in the forms of the bathers with no more than a single stroke of black or gray.
Claude Monet continued to be intrigued by nature's rugged cliffs.
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