Last Saturday at art class was kind of frustrating. It all started with my composition of what should have been a simple, basic still life consisting of a pear, lemon, and apple became three blobs of color. I’m also having a lot of trouble mixing colors. I’d pretty much given up on this one about ten minutes into it, but within the confines of my class I was kind of stuck. So I slogged my way through and this was the best I could do. I really wish I’d started with a different composition–that might have made this a touch more salvageable.
So I was given a little extra homework to do this week. In addition to the full-color painting everyone’s been assigned, I was asked to do another one color plus white (like we did the first week). So this is what I came up with. It’s better than the fruit disaster, I’ll say that much. I might try this same composition in black and white, in addition to a full color of something else later in the week.
