Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 cm, 7 x 9.5″
Still Life’s are excellent when you want to hone in on techniques. The fruit doesn’t get up and walk away, fidget and the sunlight doesn’t travel around changing the entire concept. So here I wanted to work on just that. The concept of the painting, which was a study in composition and complementary colors. I wanted to deliberately create a space for the eye to easily follow and rest without traveling off the canvas. My first and major focal point is the whole apple where the eye can rest and take in the red against the overall green and then move to the apple slice, which then brings the eye back to the grapes and the process happens again.
It is a valuable lesson to learn to keep the eye on the canvas. It is the equivalent of focused, contained thoughts against flighty, scattered ones (I belong to the latter category of mind-sets). With thoughts it is so easy to just let them run off in all directions…. the monkey mind….. and so it goes in a painting. A focused painting will catch and hold the viewer whether they like the particular painting or not. I’m not sure if I accomplished what I set out to do, but I did understand the concept much more by consciously painting with this in mind.
Be well…
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