Monday, 14 January 2013

Highly Detailed Finished Piece - Still Life


Still Life Drawing - Final Piece

This is a highly detailed final piece painting using acrylic paints on a canvas sheet of paper. A bright, artificial light has been used to create a shadow of the bonsai tree cast upon the wall behind it. This creates a dynamic view leading the eye from the tree, to the shadow and back again.

There is a piece of black drapery behind the bonsai tree which sets apart the contrast of light and dark from one side of the painting to the other. This painting gives a sense of impressionistic style where great detail has not been added but you can sense that it is there. This appears within the bark of the tree and also the soil, which the tree is rooted in. With the variety of different colours used to give the impression of detail.

The leaves that rest upon the table, in front of the tree cover a space that would have otherwise been blank. Giving a vibrant range of colour to this painting that would have other wise been full of quite dull colours. The plant pot also gives sense vibrancy with its turquoise colour, which is greatly highlighted with the bright light that also casts hard, dark shadows upon it.

The bright light used in this set up casts shadows upon the trees bark and branches, which makes them stand out from the dark curtain that rests behind them. This also gives a contrast of light and dark with the shadow that is being cast upon the tree.

This painting really stands out with its vibrant colours and tree as the main subject. However with the added elements of the light, it creates a really interesting painting. As the space where the shadow lays would have otherwise been quite blank and a waste a space but with this added elements it really helps the painting stand out.

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