Recreation of Landscape at Vetheuil by Monet

Recreation of a work of a master is tough.But Domestika challenged me with an interesting contest and I jumped in!

I recreated Landscape at Vetheuil by Monet .I love the impressionist style of painting Landscapes and I bought the life and work of Monet in June of 2025 to study his work in more detail.But the magic happened when Domestika sent me a email inviting participation in the masters recreation contest.If not for this contest I would never dare to share a recreation of a master like Monet.Even when I painted it and also finished it I didn’t submit it for two months.

(At the time of publishing this post,I still couldn’t submit it ,because I got an unknown error message on the website.Unfortunately Domestika support was not helpful in solving my problem and their Instagram chat response was a bot.But anyways I finished the painting and here it is.)

I felt worried about sharing the finished painting with the world.I love nature and nature are things I constantly paint.I shared the almost completed picture on Instagram and Youtube but didn’t submit on Domestika. I felt like a fraud. Then I read the book War of Art and I knew I just had to finish of a few details and submit it.Getting rid of resistance is more difficult than reinterpreting a master art work!

I used Camel artist watercolour,generic brushes  and Posco marker pens .
My reference book was the book The Life and Works of Monet.

I sketched the landscape roughly to give a general idea about the landscape.Then I spent a few days ruminating about whether to use watercolor or acrylic.I finally  got my watercolor colours and brushes in one places and put in the first wash to have an idea of how to go forward.

Watercolor reinterpretation of an Oil painting

Not only was I trying to recreate an impressionist master,I was also using a different medium.I have never painted with oil paints so there was no chance of doing that.But with Watercolor I knew adding highlights would require something more than just white spaces.I painted the entire picture in about 4 sittings and then I let it pickle. I published a WIP on Instagram and Youtube and let self doubt overcome me.

I used gold acrylic pen to colour a midday sun.White Posco marker for highlights on cloud,trees flowers and black dot pen to add depth to the painting.

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