This painting is available on an eBay auction for seven days, click here."An apple for the teacher" is a 5x5 oil on canvas. Another still life and in the same vein as the last – or at least near the kitchen.
This is a study on complementary color. The background has a tinge of green. As I said in the last post, still life can give an artist the chance to experiment and study objects or in the case color combinations. By mixing a green the challenge is to make the green recede away from the red apple. Because red and green are opposites, if the color of the green is not toned down or grayed, then the two colors will visually vibrate. While this can be a fun effect, in this application it would make the focus the vibration and not the object of the painting – the apple.
Another basic principal is that warm colors come forward and cool colors recede. In this case the yellow-green is the warm color and under some circumstances it could come forward and make the apple appear as though it were in a cut-out hole within the space. Again, the challenge was to use color in an unconventional way.
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