Georgia's still life of a green vase and tomatoes

 Here is Georgia's latest striking painting. The initial impression is of beautiful color. Notice the yellow bridge between the red and green color. And though the red /green compliments can be kind of Christmas-y, in this case, the cooler green keeps the color relationship fresh without being cliched.

This could be considered an interesting painting and finished as is.

 Here is Georgia's set up. I've indicated a few lines to show where, on the main stage plane, the primary objects lie.

 This is Georgia's set up and really nice value block in.












I did a little bit in Photoshop to show a few things I might consider working on.


The number of notes on a painting in no way suggests that a painting is not successful or working on many levels.

Here are the notes:

1. I've pulled the tomato on the right towards us and increased the size a little. In the original the tomato is floating just a bit.
2. I notice in the photo the curved reflection of the shadow on the ground surface. The darker shape is a nice graphic shape leading to the tomato .
3. Notice that the shadow is mostly lighter.
4. Notice the reflection of the yellow fabric on the underside of the tomato.
5. A slightly lighter shadow here as well.
6. The reflection on the vase of the tomato is more pronounced.
7. Notice a cooler, reflected ambient light on the upper right side the closer tomato.
8. Notice that the shadows emanate from the leaves in front and to the left of the vase.
9. Consider bringing the leaves sitting behind the vase to the front of the vase.
10. I'd consider engaging the the top edge a little more with another leaf or two in the character of the other leaves.
Notice that I've shaved some off of the lower left bottom of the base of the vase and added a reflection of the yellow fabric.  I also, added a little more to the to the reflection of the tomato on the left.
Georgia can of course, take all of this with a grain of salt and can implement any, or all, or none of these suggestions and have a fine painting.