Sunday, March 6, 2011
Acorns
I purchased a book called The Big Book of Painting Nature in Watercolor a month or so ago. I was flipping through it in Barnes and Noble and even though I don't paint in watercolor I was drawn in by the photographs. The book is made up of photographs by John Shaw and watercolor paintings by Ferdinand Petrie. I used a photograph of oak leaves and acorns from this book as a reference for this acrylic painting done on an 8" x 10" canvas. I still don't have a good method of photographing my paintings and that gets a bit annoying but here it is. I am not entirely happy with the background or the leaves yet-any suggestions would be very much appreciated!
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Shannon, Nice composition and I like the dark blue background, it pops the acorns and leaves.
ReplyDeleteYour painting is lovely. I like the contrast between the gold-brown and the dark blue.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments, the acorns don't get much love. ;) I actually really like this painting. I'm kind of an earthy, nature girl and this one looks a lot better in person than it photographed.
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