Happy Fourth of July!
"Saucer Nectarines" --- SOLD
These are like small, sort of flat, peaches, but darker: saucer nectarines. I've been eyeing them at the grocery store. I'm still not sure you can tell they're flat here, but oh well. I felt they really popped against this green background.
"Artichoke" --- SOLD
The picture's not great on this one...somehow my magic picture taking spot put glare everywhere. Argh. I did my best to correct it in photoshop so it's as much like the original as possible.
There are a lot of subtley different greens in this artichoke, and I feel I really learned a lot in painting it. I learned to look carefully at the differences between colors, but also that if I look too close I get too caught up in the detail and lose it. I RE-realized I have to interpret what I see, not just reproduce.
"Circles" --- SOLD
I found this transparent, yellow plate at the thrift store and thought it would be "fun" to paint it over polka-dots. It was a real challenge getting the colors right. In a situation like this where the colors are subtle shifts, and my brain is busy playing tricks, I find it most helpful to compare a lot. So I put down one color and then look at the color next to it and think "is that more red?", and then add what I think it needs to the color I've already got. It doesn't always work... I also use a lot of trial and error: mix - try it - mix again - etc. Sometimes the "wrong" colors that I try and then fail to completely cover up when I remix can leave interesting bits of color in spots. Sometimes...
I didn't realize until after I'd finished the painting that there's nothing but circles in it.
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