Leroy's Art Blog

It's been hectic and busy for the past week or two, but even with getting ready for those exhibitions, I've managed to complete some interesting if small paintings. And since a number of them are from homework assignments that repeat what I did a year and a half ago, it is nice to see some development in my style. For instance, I just completed a painting of onions the worked out pretty well. For comparison, here are the onions I painted earlier, too. That earlier painting was the first time I ever tried to paint a fabric with folds, and it shows.





Another comparison: I'd painted those bananas (back a couple of postings ago) and got good strokes for them except for the violet purple background that most critics thought took away from the bananas - except for Matthew, who wanted a high resolution copy to use as his screen saver (!). So I replaced the background with a more tame version, and added some additional highlights and nuances at the same time. Which do you like better now? The only thing is - looking at the photos here, the recent version didn't come out as clearly: the yellow is just as brilliant against the lighter background but it doesn't show that way here. Sorry.




While at it, here is the eggplant I painted and that I don't mind showing at all. The highlight was created by rubbing off some of the purple color. That is OK, but purists prefer to create even the highlights by ADDING paint, not removing it. So I worked that way in painting those onions above, and it does give a different effect. I still think the eggplant is better off with the rubbing technique though.