Elisabeth Planella, studying our oil painting course, has created a very realistic painting of her art materials. It has been very well rendered using oil paints and the colours Elizabeth has used are superb. The main colours used here are blue and red and being complimentary colours stand off from each other very well. Complementary colours, when used together in a painting, are especially dynamic and pleasing to the eye. Here Elizabeth has counterbalanced the rich blue and red of the lower half of the painting which a warm brown/red for the brush handles. If the handles had of been panted a light pale colour the painting would feel bottom heavy, however it is nicely balanced.
The shadows from the objects on the ground plane work exceptionally well and the dark side of the Savon De Marseille soap cube makes it look very three dimensional.
If we could encourage all of our students to try to draw, colour or paint a scene of their art materials we know that it would not only improve their drawing skills but would also help them in composition and colour theory too. Why not give it a go and email us your version so we can post them here!
