🎨 Reproducing Renoir - A Study of Greyscale Impressionism - Throwback Thursday 1995

Last month I posted my Escher project from back in my years at The Art Institute where we were tasked with many challenges to recreate works of art from historic masters, using their techniques, but modifying the final in some way to make it our own. The goal was to learn about the techniques used by the master artisans of the time.

For this project we had several tasks to accomplish in one piece. The main focus was on recreating color works in a limited Greyscale paint palette. The secondary task was to choose a past work from the Impressionism art movement of the 19th century, however we had to paint in solid blocks - no brush strokes or blending. We could choose from artists like Monet, Pissarro, Morisot, and Renoir. The biggest challenge to me was the medium, paint. I'm not a painter and have always struggled with it.

I chose to recreate Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted in 1875.

This project took 2 days to complete. I lightly sketched in the the drawing with pencil on the first day, then painted it on the second day. The art board was white back in the day, time does its thing.

Just as with my Escher recreation, this painting was hung up in one of the central wall achievement galleries on floor 3 (graphic design floor) for the semester after being reviewed by a few instructors. It was definitely not the best in the class, I was 5th in the lineup with fellow students who were really good at painting, so it was nice to have the recognition along side of them.

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