Still life

[Santon]

I'm working on a still life in oils, 22x30 on canvas.

Comments/critiques would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Santon]

Spent the last couple days working on details.

I was wondering if anyone had any comments or suggestions.

I'm wondering particularly about colors for the foreground... Should I leave the bottom right corner dark or just pretend it's all on a table?

[Homeless Foxman]

The dark corner might be what it actually looks like, but for me, before you even said anything i noticed it, and it stands out. Everything else is a lot brighter, and it doesn't look like that should be that dark compared to anything else because theres nothing to cause it to have such a dark shadow.

That shadow is too dark, but I think some of the other shadows might be too bright, you have the highlights, but without shadows it all reads as flat besides for bottles, cans, whatever that red and blue thing is in the tin, and the tin itself.

Also, I would ad a little more detail to the stuff in the plate on the left, because for me it doesn't read as anything, and I can't tell what it is.

Other than that this is awesome, great job! I really like your work into the highlights of the bottles and cans.

I'm not a great artist so I don't know how helpful my critiques will be, I haven't done any and it feels weird critiquing work better than my own.

[deepbluehue]

I like your concept of garbage as the still life. I would like to see more color in your whites and reds. The whites don't reflect any of the colored garbage around it and the red objects don't have enough warm and cool variation as they recede into space. I would also like to see more light and dark contrast within the still life as objects overlap and turn away from the light. Oh yeah, where is your light source? Keep working on this, I think you are going in the right direction. Look at master still life painters and see why their paintings are successful. How are they achieving the quality of light and 3 dimensional form? You have to train your eye to find reflected lights and core shadows.