Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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Welcome to the How to Paint Monet Landscape Course.
In this course, we’ll observe the master of green, the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Best known for his brilliant paintings of landscapes, coastlines, and water lilies, we’ll study some of his palette and brushstrokes to create a single copy of this picturesque Dutch port masterpiece.
Monet painted this scene while travelling to the Netherlands in 1871.
I’ve chosen this particular painting of the Houses on the Achterzaan because it is not only the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist show in Paris, but in this piece, he captures the hazy atmosphere and light-dappled water along the bank of the Zaan River using a palette of varying greens, from subtle and muted to vibrant and light.
Greens can be a real Achilles heel for beginners! The urge to grab a vivid, bright green from the paintbox can be hard to resist.
The most common mistake I see in students’ landscape paintings is a general mid-tone green that is way too bright and blocked in, with no variety. This can often make the scene flat and unrealistic.
In this course, we tackle both.
I’m excited to guide you through creating a landscape painting using Monet’s colour palette, brushes, and methods.
You’ll learn about modern and classical palettes for mixing greens and then use the pigments Monet used to mix muted greens using bright, chromatic colours.
If you’re unsure of your drawing, no worries. We use a grid method for simplifying shapes and keeping everything in proportion.
So grab a brew, a beret and maybe a biscuit and let’s get painting a Monet!
“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you,” he said. “Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you.” Claude Monet
What’s in the Course?
1 x Monet Landscape Painting from start to finish, based in the studio, working from a reference image.
7-lesson curriculum: study at your own pace (with lifetime access to these recordings)
Step-by-step instructional videos so that you can follow along at your own pace.
Each stage is a detailed yet easy-to-follow process.
DRAWING TEMPLATE – line drawing to follow to help you overcome the blank page
LIFETIME ACCESS to video lessons, download on separate devices, keep forever.
Downloadable Materials List
Downloadable JPEG reference image and reference line drawings.
Over 2+ hrs of detailed video instruction.
(I demonstrate the course with acrylics, but you could also follow the lessons with water-mixable oils or traditional oils.)
(Music by Artlist)
willkempartschool.com/product/how-to-paint-a-monet-landscape-course
Welcome to the How to Paint Monet Landscape Course.
In this course, we’ll observe the master of green, the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
Best known for his brilliant paintings of landscapes, coastlines, and water lilies, we’ll study some of his palette and brushstrokes to create a single copy of this picturesque Dutch port masterpiece.
Monet painted this scene while travelling to the Netherlands in 1871.
I’ve chosen this particular painting of the Houses on the Achterzaan because it is not only the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist show in Paris, but in this piece, he captures the hazy atmosphere and light-dappled water along the bank of the Zaan River using a palette of varying greens, from subtle and muted to vibrant and light.
Greens can be a real Achilles heel for beginners! The urge to grab a vivid, bright green from the paintbox can be hard to resist.
The most common mistake I see in students’ landscape paintings is a general mid-tone green that is way too bright and blocked in, with no variety. This can often make the scene flat and unrealistic.
In this course, we tackle both.
I’m excited to guide you through creating a landscape painting using Monet’s colour palette, brushes, and methods.
You’ll learn about modern and classical palettes for mixing greens and then use the pigments Monet used to mix muted greens using bright, chromatic colours.
If you’re unsure of your drawing, no worries. We use a grid method for simplifying shapes and keeping everything in proportion.
So grab a brew, a beret and maybe a biscuit and let’s get painting a Monet!
“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you,” he said. “Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you.” Claude Monet
What’s in the Course?
1 x Monet Landscape Painting from start to finish, based in the studio, working from a reference image.
7-lesson curriculum: study at your own pace (with lifetime access to these recordings)
Step-by-step instructional videos so that you can follow along at your own pace.
Each stage is a detailed yet easy-to-follow process.
DRAWING TEMPLATE – line drawing to follow to help you overcome the blank page
LIFETIME ACCESS to video lessons, download on separate devices, keep forever.
Downloadable Materials List
Downloadable JPEG reference image and reference line drawings.
Over 2+ hrs of detailed video instruction.
(I demonstrate the course with acrylics, but you could also follow the lessons with water-mixable oils or traditional oils.)
(Music by Artlist)
