Now that this piece is complete, I find myself reminded of my favorite coffee shop in Highlands and the lovely still life paintings that are for sale there. Perhaps my sub-conscious was secretly inspired by that place (and its delicious coffee).
My primary goal was to focus on color, value, and shape and I am pleased with the overall effect. I much prefer this to the pear I did last year who's color scheme was, in my opinion, too bright to be aesthetically pleasing. Had I not fallen ill, I would have liked to reproduce this in a darker color scheme with deep purples and rich browns, however that plan shall have to wait until a later project. Perhaps I can somehow orchestrate it to go aside this pear in a contrasting project, a study of color and shadow.
Or perhaps I shall tire of pears and revert back to my old habit of decrepit looking trees...only time will tell.
4 comments:
I hate to sound like such a meanie butthead-face, but this is totally not a full Kate piece. Knowing your art, I know you didn't put all you could have into this piece. It may be the change in subject matter, it may just have been that you rushed to finish this piece, or the fact that you got "ill with Norwegian love."
I just personally know you're better than this. Especially with watercolor. You've created some seriously stellar pieces in this medium and I felt that you could've spent more on this and made it super great.
Sorry to be so negative... :(
The fact is Quinton, it is not a tree...and when things I paint are not trees...bad things happen. O_o
Yeah, that's what I think too. You did very well with human figures last year. Even though they had a lack of faces, you captured the fluent movement of the human body.
Maybe you should give people a try again.
I'm with Quinton; this is nice but far from the magic that we've seen you produce before. I know non-tree things are boring but you should try to branch out.
...lol. "Branch."
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