Manneport a la Monet

Oil on Canvas board 24 cm x 30 cm x 2 mm = 9.4 x 11.8 in
I accepted an #InterpretAMaster Challenge from Irish artist Roisin O'Farrell, choosing Monet and his love of Étretat.
There is a photo of Monet's beloved Manneporte in a book by Vivian Russell which I "interpreted" for this painting.

For this, I primed a 24x30 cm LeFranc & Bourgeois canvas board with a warm coat of burnt sienna and titanium white oil paint, letting it dry before sketching in the motif.

In painting it, I also discovered the natural appearance and immense versatility of Gamblin's Brown Ochre from its Reclaimed Earth Colors Limited Edition Set, which, as a staunch environmentalist and nature lover, I had to invest in. (Look out, here comes the "product placement plug"!)
https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/?mc_cid=d24cad0224&mc_eid=cac0ba6332

"Every speck of pigment in these tubes has been painstakingly reclaimed from waters tainted by iron released from mines. Iron oxides make lightfast, natural, and safe oil paints. We want to put them where they belong."

Gotta love it. And that pigment now ornaments a painting of the slopes, nooks and crannies of a place beloved by a man who wanted not only to find a way to capture light with pigment, but who wanted to document landscapes that were being increasingly lost to the environmental scourges of the Industrial Revolution.

I hope Monet would have purchased Gamblin's Reclaimed Earth Colors too ... it's nice to think he might have, anyway.
:-)