Last month I have concentrated on still life artworks. What I most love in Still life painting is that you’ve total control over your subject, from what your selection to include into it, through how you arrange these, and to how you light your composition.
One of my latest subjects was everyday thing such as plum. Something I often don’t observe with artist’s eye, but barely glance over. Until, you decide to paint them. Then you start to see the subtle colors and variations, the potential of the rich purples and blues for paintings.
Even an object as simple as a plum presents an artist with various options when arranging it for a still life. If you take the bit of the plum where the stem would join it to the tree as the “top” of the plum, look at how each of the plums in this painting is set at a different angle. I have done three plum paintings covering different arrangements.
Plums art series of three - acrylic on canvas
The great thing when painting a series is that if you have a good painting idea, it will stand painting several times, as a series. From the point of view of developing painting skills, painting a series has a lot to be said for it. Each painting builds directly on what you learned from the one you’ve just created. It makes you develop an idea; see where you can go with it.
Until next time keep on going!
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