What If Monet Had A Blog?

I am a big fan of Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French Impressionist painter.  He was a founder of the French Impressionist movement and painted over 1,189 paintings. I love his use of color and how his lifestyle contributed to his artwork. In 1980, he was prosperous enough to buy his home in Giverny where he had cultivated his garden to supply subject matter for him to paint.

Monet in 1922 in his garden.

So I got to thinking about how Monet found time to paint. Since he was born before the internet and computers and even the television were invented, he did not spend his time surfing the net or watching Breaking Bad.  However, what did he miss out on because he didn't have access to the net?

Well, he could have ordered his art supplies online and saved some time and he could have emailed his friends like Renoir and Pisarro and he could have blogged.

This is a quick sketch I did in my moleskine sketchbook when I visited his garden last September. For the sake of this post, I am pretending it is his work and the following is what I imaging he might have said

 "Ran out to the garden this morning to check on things. The pink daisies are in bloom. I had my moleskine in my back pocket so I sat down on the bench and did a 10 minute watercolor sketch. I really like painting flowers and I need to find time to do more paintings of them."