Sunday, November 7, 2010

Apples and Vase

A few days to get through this one...

I decided to try some apples.  I set it them up with a blue green pottery vase I have and placed them all atop an orange cloth napkin.  I liked the blue orange complementary color combination. I took several photos, and selected one I liked. I then created a black and white version to show value and then broke it down further using a posterize function in some photo editing software.



Original photo             Black and white        B/W posterization 


I then transferred the sketch to linen.





After searching through my wool for the right colors and values I came up with... 

Apples and Vase


2 comments:

  1. I like it. It is interesting to see the process of setting up the art rug and then the color selection to make it real.

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  2. OK so that's pretty awesome. I'm loving the blue in the vase.

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