Tag: Still Life

Two small paintings I did for practice contrasting warm shadows with cool highlights without losing the intensity of color in the highlights. Lesley has a whole stack of these small bowls in different colors, so I’m thinking of doing a series.

Here are the pears. The black and white pear from the first class and the color one from the second. The point is to get the value and color contrast right. The b/w version went pretty well, although I struggle with finding and painting the darkest part, the core, of the shadow. I know intellectually… Continue reading A Pair of Pears