Monday 14 January 2013

Still Life - Final




This is a 45 minute oil pastille study of an arrangement of peppers. They are arranged in a good composition which fits with in the rule of thirds and creates a ‘v’ shaped line by none of the objects ‘kissing’. Shadows are created following the rules of colour theory where the base colour for the shadow on each different coloured pepper is the colour as closely possible to being opposite the main colour of the pepper on the colour wheel to create realistically coloured shadows. Varying tone with high contrasting highlights help to emulate the smooth shiny surface texture of the peppers, and is particularly successful on the red pepper.

Light and shadow on the material beneath the peppers, created by contrasting tonal values, give the peppers more form by creating space between each object and showing the three dimensional space around them. 

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