Background/Foreground Study
Ornament: A study in light and background/foreground unity
Ornament:This image was used as our December Seasons Greeting card for 2006
7in. x 5in. (17.8cm x12.7cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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Because I've just begun to work on the next painting which I'll be posting soon, this is an earlier work that was never posted on daily painters website but was on my blog last November.
Backgrounds are always important, and in this painting the background was used to complement the ornament and to get the light to dance around the foreground form. My next painting will demonstrate the use of a colored ground to set up the ambient light for the painting, so I thought this work would act as a good contrast to that idea.
