Peaches Pears and Eggs
by AnnaJo Vahle
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Title
Peaches Pears and Eggs
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Yes, I came up with a clever title!
I thought about ingredients for a pie. I bought some peaches and pears. I thought that they looked too good to not do a little painting of them before eating them. I had a 12 by 24 inch gallery wrapped heavy duty canvas that seemed perfectly suited to such a subject. I lined the fruit up on my desk. Light from the window was on the left. I turned a lamp to shine on them from the right.
Eager to begin, I dove right in. I worked on a textured background I had already painted. It was a dark purple. The colors of the peaches and pears looked awful against that background. I was trying to break the rules of colors and it obviously didn't work! Sigh. I put a glaze of brown over the background. That seemed to warm it up and help it to harmonize with the fruit.
It still looked like it needed something. I got a small glass bowl of eggs and set it in front. I hoped to add some tension. It helped but the glass and the white eggs looked garish against the earthiness of the rest of the still-life. I went back to the store and bought some brown eggs. I painted them in. Hmmm....the glass bowl still looked harsh. I changed the glass bowl to a brown earthen-ware bowl.
Keep wondering why I don't plan ahead! Instead of making the pie I originally planned, I made a delicious smoothie. Mmmmm. ;-) It was a nice treat for celebrating the completion of what should have been a simple acrylic painting.
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August 11th, 2014
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Comments (49)
Sharon W
Wow! Such a fabulous still life!! Beautiful art AnnaJo, and a perfect title, really! And yum, now I am craving a smoothie!!
Hartmut Jager
🌞 - ANNAJO, rightfully named FEATURED ARTIST of the WEEK, you created a marvelous warm golden colored painting ! - 👍 -
Laurel Adams
The wood grain in the bowl...the textures...ohhhh, the textures and light. Annajo, this is such a. Beautiful stilllife! ...v..best to you
Barbara Chichester
Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in one of the most highly viewed Art Groups on Fine Art America. G I D A - The GALLERIA of INTERIOR DESIGN ART. From the hundreds of pieces of artwork received daily to review and choose from, your work has been chosen because of it's Excellence! Congratulations!
Bill Caldwell - ABeautifulSky Photography
However complicated the process, it certainly came out beautifully Anna! :)) f/v