Art History Inspired

The main Idea that guided my artwork was to take two artists and make an artwork that's based on those two artists. For me, I choose Rene Magritte and Claude Monet, Rene uses a lot of clouds in his artwork so I decided to add clouds to my project and for Monet he painted a lot of landscapes so I Decided to make an ocean for my landscape.

The material I used for this artwork was acrylic paint on canvas. I first painted the base layers, I mixed the blues with white to make different shades of blue and after the base layer I started with my ocean, I started with the darkest shade of blue to make the outlines of the wave and I used brighter shades to make the waves pop more. then after I finished making the waves I took white paint and made the clouds.

At first, I was going to paint a sunny day and a field of flowers but as I was painting the sky I flipped my upside down (dark blue was originally on top) and it kind of looked like an ocean so I decided to paint the rest of the canvas blue and after I started with the waves, I was a bit nervous for this part since I don't really know how to paint water but I just kept adding different shades of blue and it turned out better than what I was expecting. When I finished everything and let it draw I took mod podge and did a clear coat to give the painting a shiny look.