| |
Community
Magazines
Book Clubs
Book Stores
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
| Artists Network
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply.
|
|
| Author |
Messages |
|
Priti
Posts:237
 |
| 11/15/2008 11:18 AM |
 Alert
|
Oil on Canvas
8x10
Done from a photo taken by a friend of tomatoes grown in her her veg, garden and place by the window. I dramatized the photo a bit by using bold colors for the background.-
(details of the window mesh are included).
|
|
Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
|
Kassie
Posts:339
|
| 11/15/2008 11:48 PM |
Alert
|
I like your tomatoes. It's a very bold painting and very contrasty. Kathy
|
|
|
|
Priti
Posts:237
|
| 11/16/2008 10:00 AM |
Alert
|
| Thanks Kassie, I wanted to do something bold to get away from the gray skies in our area. |
|
Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
|
Maggie429
Posts:467
|
| 11/16/2008 5:00 PM |
Alert
|
Priti - nice job. Love the tomatoes and the colours you used. The mesh was well done also.
Maggie |
|
Mgi
www.hoviscreations.com |
|
Priti
Posts:237
|
| 11/18/2008 9:18 AM |
Alert
|
| Thanks Maggie. |
|
Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
|
eyecandy
Posts:193
|
| 11/18/2008 2:24 PM |
Alert
|
I'm not going to be nice to you as the others have. In the first place, you should never have two pieces of fruit of two flowers kiss as you have on the right side of your painting. Secondly the three tomatoes are set up too symetrically. I don't feel like I would care to eat these tomatoes with all the black spots and the texture of the skin is too rough. And last but not least, I would never have guessed that it was a window in the background. Blue was not a good choice for the window. If you insist on using blue, I would tone it down by adding a little orange to it. I know that the window may have been blue but that doesn't mean that you have to make it as it was. You, as an artist, have to make it pleasing to the viewer. And if the viewer has to ask what it is, then you as the artist have failed in your job.
Sorry to be so tough on you, but I hope I've taught you something which is what I think you showed your painting for.
I suggest that you learn about highlights, half tones, core shadows and cast shadows. These are the things that make an object look 3 dimensional. |
|
Phil Sydell
Boynton Beach, Fl
phil-4a@comcast.net or phil4a@msn.com |
|
Priti
Posts:237
|
| 11/19/2008 12:35 PM |
Alert
|
Wow Phil,thanks for all your comments - some i agree with, some i don't. Now... since you opened the door - i have to say that the number one requirement for being an artist is to have an open mind and yes there are some rules but, " pleasing to the viewer" is very subjective.
The whole painting is done with a palette knife not a soft brush so texture is part of the painting. Ofcourse i know about highlights, half tones, core shadows and cast shadows. - but i am trying to push those concepts in a different direction where for e.g. just a bold stroke of white can indicate a highlight.
Still i am glad you took the time to comment. |
|
Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
|
eyecandy
Posts:193
|
| 11/21/2008 9:32 AM |
Alert
|
| You say that you did this painting with a palate knive and I love some of the results that can be achieved with the knife, but I think that it has to be used for appropriate subjects and tomatoes aren't one. You know that there is nothing wrong with using both brush and palate knife in the same painting. I would have done the tomatoes with a brush to be able to get the subtle texture of the skin of a tomatoe and to give them dimension. |
|
Phil Sydell
Boynton Beach, Fl
phil-4a@comcast.net or phil4a@msn.com |
|
Priti
Posts:237
|
| 11/22/2008 10:00 PM |
Alert
|
| Thanks Phil, maybe next time i will try a combination of palette knife and brush. This one is done for now. |
|
Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
|
|
| You are not authorized to post a reply. |
|
|
|
ActiveForums 3.6
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|