Trying something new with an old subject

Painting by Vicky Christensen, Golden OPEN Acrylics on 16 X 20 inch canvas 

 I'm still experimenting with Golden OPEN Acrylics. This time I painted Monet's lily pond in Giverney. My reference photo was one I found on the Wet Canvas website, one I have painted before with pastels.

I tried a new technique I learned from a Julie Gilbert Pollard video. I started with an underpainting using fluid acrylics, using pyrole orange for the top background, quinacridone magenta for the bottom background and dioxazine purple to sketch the subject. The orange glows through the blue tint of the sky, as does the magenta in the pond. I like the effect.

Underpainting, fluid acrylics