Here’s my latest (8” x 10”) alla prima still life and its development :)
Greetings fellow Steemians!
In today’s post I thought I’d share and discuss my latest alla prima still life.
This one I would say was pretty enjoyable in not only in its simplicity, but in the challenge of capturing chroma as well.
At first I began with a simple block in with thinned burnt umber. I then massed in the darkest shapes including the cast shadow.
Now with a larger brush, I then started to work in some of the background where it met with the edges of the scissors. This part of the task in a way simultaneously refined the initial block in.
Now starting from the inside and moving outwards, I then began to break down the forms and refine the edges of the handle. I would say that this was the most difficult part of the painting.
Once the handle was relatively finished, I then worked on the blades. The lower section of the blades were fun in capturing the subtle reflective value changes.
No I’ve reached the stage where I can go back and refine edges and transitions of the scissors collectively as a whole.
Now at this point I then started to rework the cast shadow and focusing on extending those subtle midtone transitions on the cloth background. From then on I massed in the background in its entirety.
...Aaaannd done!
Scissors Still Life
8" x 10"
Oil on birch
The palette I used for this painting was titanium white, cadmium yellow light, cadmium red, quinacradone rose, burnt umber, sap green, and ultramarine blue
Please feel free to let me know what you think?
Thanks for reading Everyone!
-James Hansen
https://jameszenartist.weebly.com/