The painting on the left is our first attempt at glass. I still love still-life painting, but glass is hard! But it turned out reasonably well, especially the jar on the left. However I think the blue and the red are a bit too saturated and are sort of overpowering the glass objects. Probably I could have toned down at least the red cup, if not both.The painting on the right, I did for a class I took in Palo Alto in the spring of 2007 before applying to the Academy of Art, so it makes an interesting comparison. I used mostly tube colors instead of mixed colors, and the rendering of the grapes and the glass is much more primitive than what I can do today. But this painting was probably the biggest factor in my going to art school. From that class, it was the only painting that I thought turned out okay, and I enjoyed it enough to give art school a shot. If not for this painting I might still be at Yahoo trying to figure out how to allocate video spaceids. Fortunately that task has passed into more capable hands!
5 comments:
hahaha, NICE. i need to learn painting. :(
after close inspection of the left painting, i learned to appreciate the red mug reflection on the glass. nice work!
Ah, yes are you talking about the shifting of the handle by refraction? My professor liked that. :) Also, does EVERYONE need to sign using just their initials? Who started that?!?
RF
I have always been pq. :D
Hm... I like the painting on the right better. I agree that the red and blue on the left painting is a bit much for contrast to the "clear glasses". I prefer a painting with a theme and have objects that are consistent to that theme. Glasses and mug don't really belong to the same theme. I do love the refraction of the red mug. Pretty cool effect.
Ah, wine & grapes. :) Funny I never noticed that connection before.
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