Georgia's Red Teapot and Pears.

 Here is Georgia's latest still life. She's knocked it out of the park. It's a nice layout with beautiful color. Both the teapot and all of the pears have a great sense of volume. I also like the bit of blue introduced onto the warm, dark background color. The difference between the yellows of the pears and the fabric on the table is so well done. Note the contrast of chroma, or color intensity, and value.





Here's a great shot of Georgia's fantastic still life stage with her initial drawing/value block in. The nice thing about this kind of set up is that you can control the main light while still having room light to work with that doesn't compete with the main light on your set up. With a light sheet "the box" allows some ambient light to come through the fabric to light the shadow sides of the objects a little. This is how photographers often shoot their subjects. If a darker, more opaque fabric was used, the side lit by the ambient light would not be nearly as light.

 Here's a shot of Georgia's painting with her set up and her palette.

Note the iron on the shelf in the background. Georgia may have some chores to do after she''s done painting. Then again, those might be Joe's chores...

The only thing I might consider altering is the color of the shadows. The color of the shadow is most often dictated by the surface the shadow is projected upon. In this case, the cool yellow fabric. The color of the light is also important but is not a huge factor here. The other thing that can influence the shadow is the reflection of an object onto the surface and into the shadow. This is true here and can be seen with a red influence under the teapot but also from the pears. However, it's less easy to see this because both the pear and surface the shadow is projected on are yellow. Note also that the edges of the shadow generally become lighter and softer the farther from the object casting the shadow. I've also indicated here that the direction of the shadow is slightly different than indicated in the original painting. One last note, notice the introduction of a cooler, light blue color into the shadow as it diffuses the further from the warm light it is.