Saturday, September 10, 2011


This is a photo of my painting on display at our critque. It was helpful seeing it in a cleaner and less distracting setting. It also allowed me to see it  from a far, which brought with it a chance of reflection on elements that worked and elements that were weak. Like what was observed in many of my fellow classmates pieces, compositionally, the folds in the cloth seemed to provide as a good tool to lead viewers eyes around the piece. An area of weakness is the close tonal value between the pears and the cloth causing the pears to get lost in the painting, even though they are  the largest of the subjects. Lightening the pears up was a good suggestion for an area of improvement, so that viewers could better identify these subjects and not have to key into some of the details such as the stems for identification.

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