Greetings from Traffic island

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Comment by Stuart J. Gourlay on September 3, 2014 at 20:16

Thomas, keep your rich imagination going here; it makes for interesting paintings and great stories. Mark Twain said: "If your imagination isn't working, your eyes are of no use." Stu

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on September 3, 2014 at 17:34

Ann, i was complaining recently that it's not easy to keep finding interesting things to paint from life. She said "Are you blind?. On an hour walk i see more beautifull things than i could paint in a year". She does not paint ;-)

Thanks a lot Ana, John and Ian for your kind comments!!

This painting is not my favorite concerning subject matter and color. But it has something i have barely seen in my own paintings: the originial looks clearly better than the photo, even after photoshopping.

Comment by John N Blank on September 3, 2014 at 14:57

Love it!

Comment by Ana Murza on September 3, 2014 at 13:09

I like way you made this "X" composition, with the light  casting on flowers and fruits, making a strong diagonal and  the other diagonal from front leaf(s) and the receding ones in the background. I also like your technique.

Comment by Ann Turner on September 3, 2014 at 12:41

Traffic island ? Interesting place to find a still life subject ! I'll google Mahonia berries

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on September 3, 2014 at 7:30

Thanks Ann and John.
These are not grapes but Mahonia berries and have no translucence. True that the combination is weird for a bouquet and also a painting. I just took what i found on a traffic island :-D

Comment by Jon Main on September 3, 2014 at 7:07

I like the back leaves a lot, maybe would have been better without the  grapes?

Comment by Ann Turner on September 3, 2014 at 5:40

Love the thick paint on the white rose and the leaves fading back into the background. The grapes are a little chalky and some of them are little balls that have been painted individually, think of painting grapes as a mass and then picking out individual shapes with highlights. Richard R has a lesson on still life where he teaches "how to paint grapes" he manages to get a translucent quality for the grapes

Comment by Thomas Ruckstuhl on September 3, 2014 at 1:27

Thank you Linda and Stu!

Comment by Linda L. Kano on September 3, 2014 at 1:00

I like this a lot. Wish I could paint like this!

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