Still-life Studies

Purpose:

• To use strong compositional skills to depict a fruit or vegetable,
• To use knowledge of color and a variety of brush strokes to paint a still-life

As I begin my final still-life painting, I want to remember to paint loosely. In my three studies I didn't paint as loosely as I should have and I think this affected the quality of my work. I feel like using this technique would help my painting have more realistic shadows and varieties of colors. On the studies, my values weren't blended very well and the shadows didn't help the fruit look as 3D as they should have. In terms of a color scheme, using complimentary colors worked well on my studies and I might use that scheme on my final.