I believe that my portion of the painting looks much like Monet's work for several different reasons. Monet uses long brush strokes that resemble what we have learned in painting class to be dry brush. In the lily pads that I have painted I tried to use the same technique. Also what is usually seen in Monet's work is his use of complementary colors which I have tried to do in my painting because with the red and green. A last part of painting that Monet uses often in his artwork is making the lily pads go in the opposite direction of the background brush strokes. Through these examples I learned how to think and paint like Monet.
