Here’s my latest (8” x 10”) alla prima still life and its development :)

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Greetings fellow Steemians!

In today’s post I thought I’d share and discuss my latest alla prima still life.

This one I would say was pretty enjoyable in not only in its simplicity, but in the challenge of capturing chroma as well.

At first I began with a simple block in with thinned burnt umber. I then massed in the darkest shapes including the cast shadow.

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Now with a larger brush, I then started to work in some of the background where it met with the edges of the scissors. This part of the task in a way simultaneously refined the initial block in.

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Now starting from the inside and moving outwards, I then began to break down the forms and refine the edges of the handle. I would say that this was the most difficult part of the painting.

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Once the handle was relatively finished, I then worked on the blades. The lower section of the blades were fun in capturing the subtle reflective value changes.

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No I’ve reached the stage where I can go back and refine edges and transitions of the scissors collectively as a whole.

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Now at this point I then started to rework the cast shadow and focusing on extending those subtle midtone transitions on the cloth background. From then on I massed in the background in its entirety.

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...Aaaannd done!

Scissors Still Life
8" x 10"
Oil on birch

The palette I used for this painting was titanium white, cadmium yellow light, cadmium red, quinacradone rose, burnt umber, sap green, and ultramarine blue

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Please feel free to let me know what you think?

Thanks for reading Everyone!

-James Hansen
https://jameszenartist.weebly.com/