4-1/2" x 6" oil on canvas adhered board
here were the steps and thoughts along the way today...
first the reference, seeing what I was seeing of the subject sitting in my light environment box...
I decided to tone my panel first with what I anticipated would be opposite colors, complementary and help create some energy, excitement...using turps some blue, some viridian...
It took awhile getting into this painting before I began to believe I had made the right or
workable decision in the tone's color. Just how much to allow to be seen poking thru in the background as I built it up, how much to be seen in the shadow. It can go one way or the other..
...here I am blocking in, and beginning to dab in some background color..
more along the way...
and finished...here then a closeup view...
If you look along contours of the onion and various places in daks, shading, edges I have allowed a certain degree of the original undertone to be seen.
I suppose its a bit like Cezanne's use of complements around his still life objects...though I believe his were painted in and not part of any undertone.
Where rounded edges are concerned, I like to soften or obscure to give a sense of going back into space. I think allowing the undertone to contribute to the contour yet obscures the rounded form/edges...but perhaps with a bit of excitement.
Thanks for looking and comments....
Larry
Garlic n Onion- Incidental
Linear Mode
