Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Red Olive Jar with Scoop

9 x 12"
oil on panel
Okay, getting the photo was more of a challenge than I thought it would be. Obviously I will get more practice at that.
This was an olive jar that I bought on sale at a store going out of business. I didn't know they came with scoops for the olives. I had to ask what it was. I was concentrating on get the beautiful highly saturated color , something I don't usually do, at the same time as putting in the darks and lights to create dimensionality. I see now I could have paid more attention to composition. I loved working with that red. But I still have the jar, I can always paint it again. It is a beautiful jar. I am reasonably satisfied with this for my first piece here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, it looks like you're off to a good start. The red does show up nicely, especially when enlarged.