I think that every artist feels very happy and surprised when they produce one or several paintings in his or her collection that they truly feel is one of their best works. I feel that way every time I look at this painting. As I look at it, I'm hoping that I did everything right in achieving that certain professional quality that one sees in paintings that hang in galleries. However, one question that I've been struggling with since I finished this piece and that is, can I reproduce that same quality in my future paintings. It's not that I haven't given the same care and attention to my past creative endeavors but once in a while you feel you've created something special that your really pleased with and you want to do it over again by retracing your steps. Using cool and warm tones in this painting, I hope it's balanced as well as having a pleasing composition. I've started a new small painting similar to this one, again using a white table cloth and painting it from life. I'm hoping it will end up looking the same too. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
4 comments:
Wow, I really enjoy this painting! Isn't it great when everything works well and the final results shows it. I like that you put it in two different frames. The white frame highlights the cool colours and the brown frame brings out the warm colours.
Thanks so much Karen,yes I'm glad this little painting turned out the way it did, the table cloth part was difficult and I think the frame is suitable for it as well.
LOVE IT! The photos of it turned out really well too.
Hi Dayna,
Thank-you, glad you like it too. I managed to figure out the exposure issue I was having with my camera and the photos came out better on this posting.
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