For this painting I had to really change my personal style of painting. I always thought that paintings had to be very crisp and clean, but Monets' style is super loose and really somewhat sloppy. Our class had to work together by blending different colors and tones to create a scene of a pond filled with Lilly pads. I interpreted Monets' oval shaped brush strokes and tried to use shadows underneath the Lilly pads to create a more 3D view to help them pop. Also, I tried to match the warmer colors of the background to the color of the Lilly pad. To do so, I used the colors brown, green, yellow, and blue.
