When picking a traditional artist to do digital art on, I chose to draw inspiration from Claude Monet, a French artist and one of the foundations of impressionism art. When looking at his art, I chose four pieces that I particularly liked, and found that they all had a clear focus on reflection, and used it in a way to amplify my image, so I decided that the digital art I would create would be largely reflection based.
Another thing I noted about his art, was the importance of the strokes, which is a staple of the impressionism style. Although in most traditional art pieces, strokes would be visible, they're quite distinctive in Monet's pieces. A third thing I noted about his art were the colours, they, for the most part, were quite desaturated.

I decided to do the digital art based on this photo I took from Worthing Pier, as I felt it encompassed a lot of elements that are common in Monet paintings, such as a lot of reflections in the water, and it's clear he likes painting sunsets as they come up commonly in his paintings.

I chose to heavily reference one of Monet's paintings in the 'Houses of Parliament, Sunset' series for how to draw based off of his art, in which I'll reference back to later.

I chose to make this piece in Photoshop using the Mixer Brush Tool, as I decided this would make for the best way to simulate the oil-painted brush strokes. I started by using the oil brush type with the wet effect to try and experiment with effects.
After finishing it, I decided that it wasn't really the right effect for trying to get the oil-brushed style, so I tried again with a different effect.

I instead chose to use the moist effect for this illustration, I think this style definitely worked better, due to the fact that this effect allowed for a bit more clarity within the lines of the image, as the previous version everything just looked really smudged, instead of distinct lines.
I could tell there was still something off about the image, however, so I went back to studying Monet's original a bit more.

When looking back at Monet's original design, I realised his brush strokes vary in direction, which is something I missed upon my last viewing. I viewed that in his painting of sunrise at the Houses of Parliament, only the water and the reflection had horizontal strokes, and that everything above the horizon line was vertical, and this helped to show where the horizon line was without having a defined line. This also helps to show the height of the buildings, by the strokes going up it implies they are taller, so I decided to re-try this in my next attempt.
I continued to use the moist effect for this iteration, and I think that worked really well. Out off all of my pieces so far, this one had the best looking vanishing line, the water looked detailed and had depth, and the change to have the lines above the horizon line to be vertical has really changed the image for the better, as it really differentiates the two areas of the image.
Though I do really like this piece, I was thinking slightly that the buildings were too detailed and defined within their boxes for it to match Monet's style, so I made another attempt at the piece.

I went back to using the wet effect on the brush for this piece, to try to get that more undefined appearance on the buildings, and I found, for something that's meant to appear to painted with oil paints, it did look way too wet. However, I had tried using the dry effect on the brush, but it didn't create stroke-like indents at all, so it wasn't worth continuing because it wasn't anywhere near the desired effect.

In the end, I decided my previous try was actually most respectful to Monet's style of painting.