Good morning Artists and Steemians,
Have a game-plan. I want to show you my thought process before I even pick up the brush (or knife).
Here is the physical setup.
Composition game-plan: The red pear will be the focus of the painting. Blue objects/cloth and green pear will compliment, but at the same time should remain less saturated than the focal red. Background will become more like the subservient/complimentary blue, and vice versa. The other red pear must be desaturated to allow main pear to dominate, while leading up to it. Lightest lights will be isolated to the focal pear, and the top end of the value range will shrink as we move away from it in a radial way...it will be "spotlit". These are the thoughts going through my head as I look at the setup before starting:
First stage. After this block-in, I switch to the knife:
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And the finished painting, "Starkrimson On Ledge" (8x10 oil on panel, 2013):
This type of pear definitely wins 'best pear name award'. Thanks for reading! -David