Day Twenty Six: Landscape by Camille Corot
Hello and welcome to day 26 of 100 days of Tonalism.
Today's study is 'Landscape' by Camille Corot.
Another day another Corot. We've done a Camille Corot previously and I think we've five more to go. Camille Corot was actually a Barbizon painter, but he was such a huge influence (in my view) that I'm treating him as a Tonalist for this series. Another reason why he's in the series is that I wanted to learn as much as I could about how he painted.
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| Painted after - Landscape by Camille Corot , Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x7, Oil on wood panel |
Today's study is 'Landscape' by Camille Corot.
Another day another Corot. We've done a Camille Corot previously and I think we've five more to go. Camille Corot was actually a Barbizon painter, but he was such a huge influence (in my view) that I'm treating him as a Tonalist for this series. Another reason why he's in the series is that I wanted to learn as much as I could about how he painted.
Even though all these studies are executed in my manner of painting, I feel that a part of the soul of each artist covered has been absorbed by me artistically. This project took up over three months of my working life but I saw it somewhat like an advanced course in Landscape painting and also a necessary part of my evolution as a painter.
Over the last few weeks I've been applying some of that hard won insight to a pile of also rans in my studio to good purpose, in that I'm reworking parts of the paintings that weren't right.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Landscape' by Camille Corot. Corot liked to put allegorical and mythological figures in his landscapes. I'm not into that aspect of his work though I'm certainly not dissing it either. For this series, I chose to remove almost all of the figures from the different studies that I've painted. Theres a lot more mood and atmosphere in this painting without the figures capering about.
I focused on getting the silvery quality that Corot is famous for and I really enjoyed doing this study.
To see more of my work, visit my site here.
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Landscape' by Camille Corot. Corot liked to put allegorical and mythological figures in his landscapes. I'm not into that aspect of his work though I'm certainly not dissing it either. For this series, I chose to remove almost all of the figures from the different studies that I've painted. Theres a lot more mood and atmosphere in this painting without the figures capering about.
I focused on getting the silvery quality that Corot is famous for and I really enjoyed doing this study.
To see more of my work, visit my site here.
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| Original painting, Landscape by Camille Corot |