Ella Wiatt

I am continuing my subject of chandeliers and focus on depth. I want to use warmer colors for this piece and make it a smooth transition from in focus to out of focus. I took my own reference photo and tried to get clear reflections. So far it is difficult incorporating the warm colors because the reference photo was kind of dull.

Stephanie Birdsall Background Stephanie Birdsall is an American impressionist painter who works in oil paints and pastels. She paints primarily still lifes and landscapes, and she draws inspiration from the natural world. She emphasizes painting from life as it allows the artist and environment to work together. She attended the City and Guilds of London Art School and spent her years after graduation painting throughout Europe. She has received over 60 awards such as the De

For this piece, I kept my themes of reflection and light but changed my content. Instead of painting candy, I moved to painting crystal and glass. My reference photo was of a chandelier, and I liked it because it had a lot of depth. I am able to draw focus to the crystals in the foreground by making them very crisp while leaving the background soft and out of focus. I also liked how it had some ambiguity, and the blend of the crystals moves the eye around the piece. Because o

For this project I was continuing my focus on colorful shadows. Unlike my last project, I put the objects on a light background to see if it would make the shadows stand out more. I struggled picking the right color because I wanted to complement the candy well but also not take away from it. I ultimately decided on a light purple because the low saturation was still pleasing to look at while being subtle. I though it was a good choice as it is the complementary color to yell

Background : She is a painter and drawer who uses bold color, geometric shapes, and overlapping techniques to showcase her still lifes. Her love for art started at a young age when she would watch PBS art shows. She attended the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission's Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship. She is also a founder of Binder of Women, which is a group of Los Angeles female artists. She started her career making

Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter who paints still lifes of common objects such as pie, lipstick, cake, and ice cream. He also explored with landscapes that merged the line between reality and memory. His work depicts themes of American consumer culture and nostalgia. Light, texture, and color are common themes throughout his paintings. https://waynethiebaudfoundation.org/ Background: 1942-1945: serve in the US army in the Special Services Division as a cartoonist 1949: w

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