Friday, October 10, 2008

grapes #3 5x7

The translucent nature of grapes makes them interesting to paint. There is not as great a difference in value between their lit side and their shadowed side as there would be if they were more opaque. I ate these when I was done painting them.
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michael mikolon said...

Love the dark background. If you study old master still life's you will see them use the dark element, powerful.

10:45 PM
craigstephens said...

Thanks Mike.
I notice that when I first started doing these small paintings I experimented more with different colored backgrounds and now I tend to just switch back and forth between dark and light. It wasn't really a conscious decision to eliminate colored backgrounds. I just think that over time, preferences start to emerge and ones painting develops in a certain direction. It's kind of interesting.

7:28 AM

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