FAV 15% for November FASO Contest

Knit and Purl

16 x 30

Oil on Linen

This painting was selected as part of the Favorite 15% of the FASO Bold Brush Painting Competition. I took a new photograph of the painting, hoping to get truer colors. I love my new iphone, takes amazing pictures.

New Painting

Knit and Purl

16 X 30

Oil on Linen

This was a bear of a painting. Trying to paint the knitting balls inside of a wire basket was much more difficult than I had thought. Paint and learn. I had to paint the knitting balls which wasn't easy, but then I had to paint the wire basket on top of balls and the shadow of the wires had to be incorporated into the details. Getting all the textures coordinated was a challenge.

Composition of a still life

There have been long held beliefs on how the still life should be arranged for the viewers most rewarding experience.  This has typically been either the horizontal or the front to back viewing. The viewer's focus of attention was believed to travel from the left to the right or from the front to the back. New studies suggest however, that the viewer's eye actually darts around the canvas resting momentarily at different points of interests. 

Looking at the above painting, the old theory would suggest that the viewer would start at the bowl on it's side and move across the canvas to the garlic, the raku vase then the yellow vase, barely noticing the raku vase in the background. Through current research it has been proven that this isn't the case, and in fact the viewer may first focus on the center raku then move to the back raku then over to the bowl on it's side and then may finally rest on the yellow vase. No two people will view a painting the same.