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Peggy

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02/02/2008 9:29 AM	Alert
Here's a couple of my more recent still life pieces. Hope you like. Peggy

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for a hope and a future to bring you to an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

River

Posts:360

02/02/2008 12:17 PM	Alert
These are really nice Peggy. I love the pitcher and tea cup, but both are lovely. I think that still lifes are harder than they look, especially to create the plain the items are on! Your onions and peaches are really nicely detailed. Since you like the details I wonder if smaller canvases (where the subject though still large is cropped more closely) would be a nice choice for you so that you can work on the fruit details forever if you want and not be bothered with the rest of a large canvas? I'm more undetailed and like a larger space...but we all have our own way of seeing and working.

Peggy

Posts:115

02/02/2008 6:12 PM	Alert
I forgot to mention size, both of these are on 11x14 canvas. and yes I do like the details, maybe that is why landscapes are so hard for me. Anyway, thanks for the comments. Peggy

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for a hope and a future to bring you to an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

LMB

Posts:455

02/04/2008 11:02 PM	Alert
Hi Peggy, Your still life's are nice. I agree with River in that I like the pitcher and tea cup over the other painting. Did you do them both at the same time? Leon

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Peggy

Posts:115

02/05/2008 9:51 AM	Alert
Thanks, Leon, These were both painted in the month of October of this past year. The teapot and lemons were done first and from life. We set this one up in the studio and several of us painted it, they all look different. The other one was one I had set up a long time ago and took photos to work from. I have limited space in my art corner and could not leave it set up to do at that time. I had initially planned to use and 18x24 canvas, and just couldn't get motivated until this last October and needed something I could do relatively quick and ran across the photos, and thought I'd try a smaller canvas. I've done several things on smaller canvases since then. I was getting ready for my first showing and our towns frirst art walk; my thought was to do some smaller pieces that I could sell for less to add to my larger more expensive pieces. And I did sell one of those smaller pieces that weekend. Now I'm trying to get motivated for another art walk in the spring down in south Alabama. Anyway thanks for the comments, and I like "Tea Time" too. Peggy

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for a hope and a future to bring you to an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

River

Posts:360

02/05/2008 2:45 PM	Alert
Yes...Peg...try cropping your pictures...(cutting away the parts that are unnecessary without making the subjects smaller)...and you might really like them even more. When I do it while looking at your pictures they seem more powerful and interesting. Your work on the cloth is wonderful...but maybe you don't need so much of it in the picture...getting to put your creative energy into the objects more. Nothing says they have to fit completely on the canvas either...if part of the grapes get cut off...that's ok...that's really how we see I think...try taking some paper and put it around the objects and you'll see what I mean.... River/michele

storyteller

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02/06/2008 9:23 AM	Alert
I like them. The colors are rich and deep, and you've captured the various textures well, especially the glass vase in the second piece. I'm thinking the shadows on the lower halves of the peaches and the yellow onion should be deeper, they way you've done it on the red onion. "Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not." --Maria Mitchell

NaomiBlvs

Posts:164

02/06/2008 4:35 PM	Alert
I really like your use of color. Would the shadow under the part of the grapes hanging off the table be a little different, to go along with the curve of the table? Personally, I like the purple one the best with the peaches. I love the contrast of colors in this one.

Wishing you peace and prosperity, Naomi www.naomisstudio.com

Peggy

Posts:115

02/08/2008 10:48 PM	Alert
Thanks guys for the input. Glad you enjoyed them. They actually look even better in the frames. Hope to have something new soon. I've got two new paintings going now that I put the barn away for a while. Had to have something to work on while one dries enough to work on it some more. Till then, Happy Painting. Peggy

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for a hope and a future to bring you to an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

Carver Shivers
Posts:143

02/11/2008 2:11 AM	Alert
I want to try still life! Your color combinations are wonderful! Very NICE Peggy!

Carver www.shiversgallery.com

Theriot

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