Today wasn’t terribly productive as I’m starting to wear out. I did one scraper because I started too early in the morning and the light chnaged too quickly to finish. At least I got two stages done. Probably could have finished it the next day, but I rarely do that (short attention span 🙂 Click here to see stage one, and here to see stage two of this unfinished, scraped study.
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![Still Life Stage 1](https://www.edterpening.com/images/art/Ovanes-Berberian-Workshop-June-21-2006-Still-Life-1-Stage-1-BLOG.jpg)
Here’s the painting at the next stage, some block-in color, and I’m starting to add some warm/cool color combinations. As you can see, I removed the green tin on the right (see original drawing above) as I felt it distracted from the composition and I wanted to keep things simple. Ovanes will often stress constantly, create warm/cool variations of color to create a nice vibration for the eye. He said this is the main thing he learned from master Serge Bongart.
![Still Life Stage 2](https://www.edterpening.com/images/art/Ovanes-Berberian-Workshop-June-21-2006-Still-Life-1-Stage-2-BLOG.jpg)
This is the finished study. Ovanes really liked the colors in the top middle ( red flower and the colors behind it). He advised that I simplify the background (which I did) as well as the lower left red flower. I’m happy with the sense of light in this painting, in particular the far right flowers and the warm/cool colors in the vase in shadow. I may add some bits of light to some of the flowers, as I like the sharp bit of light on the far right yellow flower.
Hi Ed,
Thank you sooooo much for sharing your workshop. Hope I can return the favor in the fall. This is very nice. I liked the scraped one, too, but I am partial to the brighter colors. 🙂
Jo
Hi Ed,
Thanks for sharing your experiences of that workshop. It was a delight to read about it and see your paintings.
Cheers…Nue
I am printing this one out, Ed. It is difficult to keep that ‘warm / cool’ stuff in mind with a brush in hand, but it is darned well worth it, as you have shown!
Mike
i like the color of the result..:)