Thursday, February 4, 2010

Watercolor - Still Life with Strawberries and Asparagus

"Still Life with Strawberries and Asparagus" (11"X14", Watercolor, $100)

Done in class using other people's items, a small study in textures. It worked as far as I'm concerned, since you can tell they're strawberries, not tomatoes, and the asparagus looks like actual spears, rather than some kind of unidentifiable pack of stalks.
The lighting is soft and the colors are accordingly softer. I like the effect it has on the seafoam green pressed paper strawberry box and the red-purple nodules on the asparagus.
In this picture, as in a previous post, the paper bag that breaks the border helps make the table top flatten out more convincingly.

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