Watercolor - Still Life with Bowls and Fruit

"Tabletop with Bowls, fruit and a Pumpkin" (8"X10", Watercolor, $65)

This small piece was done with the tables mentioned in the last post pushed into the circle that they form so well. In the middle, the instructor put a small table with the setup on it. That was so we could all sit around the circle and see different setups from the various angles. Where I was sitting I had a pretty good selection of things to paint.

I like the crowdedness of this composition, the fullness of it, if you like. I also think the crumpled fabric with its fancy pattern makes the overall picture more balanced: large shapes here (grapefruit, tangerine, granny apple, white bowls) and delicate shapes (the fabric and the terra cotta swan-and-reed dish) there. The blue notes go diagonally down from left to right and the green notes go diagonally up from left to right.

I even like the little bits where the objects break out of the border, along the top and on the left side. The ruffled edge of the fabric actually raises the 'border' along the bottom. Altogether a nice little picture.