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| 6" x 8" Four Cherry Tomatoes #74 |
I decided to bail on the lemons today and painted cherry tomatoes instead. It was a nice change of color. Plus, I used a complimentary color for the background, just as my Guru suggested the other day. Everything was coming together nicely, when I stepped back from the painting and realized I had made a dreadful compositional mistake. Let me explain. At this point, I had only painted 3 tomatoes - the 2 at the top (the eyeballs) and the one sliver at the bottom left (the nose). I had painted a tomato face! It was awful. Once you see something in a painting, you are never able to get that image out of your mind! SO I had to perform painting triage, and quickly added another slice of tomato in the bottom right and kind of salvaged the whole thing. Edgar Payne would certainly not approve of this composition, but it gave me a chance to practice my tomato painting technique.
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