The lighter areas that show here behind the pitcher is from my flash reflecting off the wet paint.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
During the past few days as I kept looking at this painting, I concluded that much more work was needed. The range of values in the pitcher was too weak so I went darker with the darks and lighter with the lights. After that, more contrast was needed for the background for the pitcher to show up better, so I decided the background should be much darker. With that done, then the foreground looked pretty whimpy so I chose to make it a reflective dark surface. I then pumped up the highlights in the figs and reworked their shadows. For now, this painting is complete but as usual, I will hang it in a place where I can keep looking at it and make any needed changes that I see.
The lighter areas that show here behind the pitcher is from my flash reflecting off the wet paint.
The lighter areas that show here behind the pitcher is from my flash reflecting off the wet paint.