It was time for another study of the masters. I had yet to choose an artwork by Claude Monet, so his painting "Cliff Walk" seemed like a good choice. I am mesmerized by the impressionists ability to capture a moment with little blurry blobs of paint. Studying this painting in depth, it looks like he used the same, tiny brush for the entire painting, working his way through the details one little mark at a time.
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 Continuing on my journey of imitating the masters, I tried my hand at a Picasso still life. This was a very different experience from the ones I tried before. Where in the Van Gogh's and the Renoir my brain knew I was painting a flower, a leaf, or a book, it was very hard to turn off that left brain from analyzing what I was doing. With this semi-cubist work from Pablo Picasso, "Vase With Flowers" my brain definitely recognized that I was painting brushstrokes rather than actual real life imitation.
 Once upon a time, I lived as an artist in Barcelona and created art. When I painted, I used oils and immensely large canvases. I painted very smooth, naturalistic, and kind of odd images. Sometimes, I would insert geometric one-color shapes in the paintings. For lack of a better genre, I called my style: hyper-naturalism. I thought I had invented the term, but it turns out there is indeed a style of art called hyper-naturalism, and what I did fit perfectly.
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