Posts Tagged ‘Leigh Cohn’
My Year of Monet #5: Wives & Families
Featuring 2 of Leigh’s 2019 Paintings In this post, I’m going to talk about Monet’s love life. As an aside, I hope you received my announcement about available paintings being offered until December 9, 2019. So far, I’ve received far more requests than paintings being offered, which has been exciting but disconcerting, because not everyone…
Read MoreMy Year of Monet #3: Monet & Me – Reinventing Ourselves
Featuring 6 of Leigh’s 2019 Paintings A Monet-Like Painting Project I recently attended “Monet: The Late Years” at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, an exhibit of works from the last two decades of Claude Monet’s life. I took the selfie below at that show, which opened with a short 1915 film by Sacha…
Read MoreMy Year of Monet #2: Painting with Monet’s Techniques
Featuring 2 of Leigh’s 2019 Paintings Monet Painting Sells for WHAT?! Before I describe my use of his techniques, I’m going to react to last month’s $110.7 million sale of Claude Monet’s “Meules” (Haystacks). It broke the record for an Impressionist work of art, but I think Monet would have been disappointed that the price…
Read MoreMy Year of Monet #1: Photography and the “21st Century Impressionist”
Photography and the “21st Century Impressionist” Featuring 6 of Leigh’s 2019 Paintings I’ve studied Claude Monet since I was a teenager and have paid homage to him with my own water lilies and scenes from his garden in Giverny. For 2019, I have embarked upon a more intensive investigation into his life, techniques, and art…
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