Strawberries in Cut Glass Bowl
Strawberries in Cut Glass Bowl
5in. x 7in. (12.7cm x 17.8cm ) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
SOLD
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This posting is a second still life for my classical realist study and is a bit more in the style of Photo-Realist painters such as Chuck Close or Ben Schonzeit. Some say you can't do this with acrylics so I'm trying to prove it’s possible. I’ve worked with oils for many years, and then gravitated to acrylic while traveling and working in many locations around the world. I found acrylics worked especially well for landscape, but now am finding they can be used for detailed still life as well.
In this painting I needed to use all the red colors in my taboret drawer. I didn’t keep track of all the reds I used, however, it was a lot more than I used in the previous “Red Grapes” painting. This is because I needed to work hard to get the highly saturated reds in the strawberries. I counted eight different reds in the drawer today and I think I used bits of all of them for the strawberries.
My new digital camera also allows me to get better representation of color in the photos I post. I’m using the new Nikon D-40 and find this camera gives me good control of digital photos in the macro mode. The digital images I’m posting on-line are as close as I can get them to the original painting, but one must be aware that differences in computer monitors can skew the colors from the original image that is posted. Also the way a painting is lighted on the wall after it is purchased can make a big difference in what you see. I use natural sunlight neon tubes and Philips® Natural Sunshine screw-in bulbs in my studio and have measured the lighting at my easel to be sure it comes as close as possible to natural outdoor lighting.
I’ve also studied and tested color when teaching color classes, so try to maintain the highest level of color saturation in paintings even though many of my paintings deliberately use a limited palette to keep good color harmonies working together in the design.
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