Decided to go to my studio today with no real idea of what I wanted to do. I took a rose from our bouquet of roses on the dining room table, a lemon, and 2 corks. I know, I know..... when I got to the studio it was Farmer's Market day. I decided to walk thru the market and see if anything caught my eye. This little bouquet of flowers did just that. I took them up to the studio, put them and the rose from home in to Grandma Schuyler's teapot and got this. It's my first time doing flowers and as a result, I learned some things not to do.... design and layout are very important...... I'll leave it at that. With that said, the white rose at the top and the other flower have more depth that what shows in the photo of the painting. I snap most of these shots for my blog with an iPhone.... unfortunately not exactly a true representation of the actual painting.
* Having this studio is fantastic!
Update.... 2/20/11..... MAJOR SURGERY! (on the painting!)
From left to right.... in the first attempt at this still life I made some major errors in design. Two white flowers means pour design at least as far as where they were in the bouquet. The eye just goes to the white.... poor design. The middle shot is after I went in and changed the white rose to a pinkish rose.... much better but still have the same problem because of the remaining white flower..... third shot is after I went back an reworked the white flower on the right... it's now pinkish color also. This is a major improvement over the first two. I've not changed anything on the teapot but this is what happens when you use an iPhone to take the photo in different light etc. I would say that the true color of the teapot is more representative in the photo on the left.... I have at least one more change that I am going make to make so stay tuned!
