Thursday, February 4, 2010

Watercolor - Still Life with Sugar and Lemons

"Still Life with Lemons and Swiss Sugar Shaker" (11"X14", Watercolor, $100)

I like this one because of the color combination of orange, blue, yellow and purple. It was done in watercolor class using objects that one of the students had brought in. I also like the angle of perspective that draws the viewer into the composition.
The main focal point is off-center to the left, and the patterned table runner brings your eye from right to left, and then to the lemons in back as a kind of 'stopper', up to the point of the sugar shaker and then back to the lower right corner along the slope of the table edge. Things like that keep the viewers' eyes moving around the picture long enough to see the colors and decide to like them.

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