Four - Not Three
6x8in oil on canvas board 100.
The title comes from the "rule" in painting that you should have an odd number of things in your set-up. One, three, five etc. Well, this started off as three but using the boat shaped bowl made the design move in a definite direction and I realized when I was near completion that it did not please me. I put a piece of glass in front of the painting and painted another apple in several places until I reached this position. Maybe having some of the apple going out of the picture allows it to be not quite the unwanted even number of four. Maybe a title change to
Three and Half - Not Three?
I love this painting. Beautiful job on those apples. And I love the purple in the shadows. I think the addition of the fourth apple made the composition more pleasing. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Virginia. I can tell you really looked at it.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that this is really a painting with 5 objects. The dish is one, the three apples and the one apple. You actually have an odd number or 3 odd numbers in your painting. Pat Lawrence
ReplyDeleteGood point and I thank you.
ReplyDeleteMy reasoning was not about the number of "things" in the whole painting but the bright, featured apples.
Enjoyed the visit here today Julie! This is looking like a story to me,,a 4th one trying to become a part of a family of three,,some hesitation there but still holding good together!
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