Analysis from W.S by L.P.Hartley

Structure and Content
It 's not easy to follow a picture description if the writer jumps randomly from one point to another. Therefore, make sure that your picture description is logically structured, for example:

from left to right (or from right to left) from the background to the foreground (or from the foreground to the background) from the middle to the sides (or from the sides to the middle) from details to general impressions (or from general impressions to details)
Which structure you finally choose depends on your taste and the picture you want to describe.

Pictures in General short description of the scene (e. g. place, event) details (who / what can you see) background information (if necessary) on place, important persons or event
Paintings
name of artist and picture, year of origin (if known) short description of the scene (e. g. place, event) details (who / what can you see) impression on the viewer artist 's intention perspective, colours, forms, proportions etc.

Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies by Claude Monet
Claude Monet painted Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies in 1899. The artist admitted that he spent many hours contemplating the lilies on the water long before he picked up his palette.
Monet 's first intense period of work at the pond began in the summer of 1899. When the weather turned cold, he completed six works to his satisfaction in the studio.

The following year, Claude Monet would afford his undivided attention to his water garden. See the more lush, saturated tones of The Waterlily Pond, Harmony in Pink in the next section.
Claude Monet - Water Lily Pond

Claude Monet always stood alone; his feet resounding heavily on the solid road that he was determined to follow until the very end. With tiny, dabbing brush strokes his paintings, more often than not exploded in the golden richness of the sun. With Monet a brush stroke, while imprecise, can suggest an infinity of objects that go beyond the instant

Bibliography: onet 's Water Liliesby Vivian Russell" 1998, Hodder Headline Australia Pty. Unity is in how a painting is brought together and made one. The painting also harmonizes with nature in that it is painted in the same way someone would see it at Monet 's garden in Giveney. In the background, towards the far end of the pond, the strokes blend together and the texture appears mottled, providing the painting with its three dimensional feel. In the Water Lily Pond, ' the bridge moves over the pond, lending the painting it 's rhythm, drawing the eyes of the viewer along the bridge and under the lake, where the shadow of the bridge lies. In contrast to the other paintings in the series, in this one Monet has lifted the bridge to the top of the page, perhaps symbolizing the change in his life, as his eyes travel past the bridge and into the future without his wife. Short, dabbing motions of his brush create the mirage of colours in the water lilies whilst slender, supple strokes impart the willows and the bridge with a soft and realistic look. Water Lily Pond ' is an unbalanced painting as darker tones and larger shapes are used with more frequency on the left side than the right, thus making it heavier. ' With vibrant greens shimmering and colourful splotches of pink and yellow, the Water Lily Pond ' is harmonious in its colours rather than contrasting. The aquatic plants that float on the top of the water in the foreground of the piece are large in comparison to those underneath the bridge, whilst the bridge arching over the pond is large, despite being towards the top of painting and thus further away. In conclusion, Monet has correctly proportioned the plants of the garden so as to reflect nature and used a variety of colour and texture to allow a clear uninterrupted view of the surface of the pond.