05-06-2014, 03:27 PM
Color and light study inspired by the latest package of vegetables and fruits. I aimed to study the reflective color lights from all the veges, and compare the different red and yellows. The fruits were fading fast, so it's basic shapes and colors. I didn't feel like making this into a Met still life with veins and dew drops, so I didn't bother taking a photo of it.
--------------Observations:
Yellows: Despite its name, Cadmium Lemon Yellow is not the hue of lemons. Or at least not the bunch I bought. These lemons were warm yellow - warmer than banana. I used Windsor Yellow for the lemon, and Cadmium Lemon for the banana. Purple for shades of yellow objects.
Reds: Strawberries starts with Alizarin Crimson, a dark and cold red. They have purple instead of blue in the darker areas. Blue changed the hue too much. Tomatoes are mixes of Cadmium Red or Orange, and Cad.Lemon.
There are no blues in strawberry sepals shadows, they are only brown. Blue is a presumption. Strawberry light area has yellow tine.
The egg has gone bad.
Eggplant is like a mirror and it is really hard to paint reflected color objects on it without the color shapes looking like stickers.
Colors do not reflect all that much onto other objects unless they're glossy and dark like an eggplant, which is kind of how mirrors work. The only other reflected color I saw was a hint of yellow on the cabbage from the lemon and banana, but the cabbage did not pick up red from the strawberry. Strawberry isn't reflective enough. Lemon did pick up a hint of blush from the strawberry. Tomatoes are glossy, but they didn't pick up the banana next to them. Egg did not pick up strawberry red.
I'm committing suicide by fume and zero-ventilation.
--------------Observations:
Yellows: Despite its name, Cadmium Lemon Yellow is not the hue of lemons. Or at least not the bunch I bought. These lemons were warm yellow - warmer than banana. I used Windsor Yellow for the lemon, and Cadmium Lemon for the banana. Purple for shades of yellow objects.
Reds: Strawberries starts with Alizarin Crimson, a dark and cold red. They have purple instead of blue in the darker areas. Blue changed the hue too much. Tomatoes are mixes of Cadmium Red or Orange, and Cad.Lemon.
There are no blues in strawberry sepals shadows, they are only brown. Blue is a presumption. Strawberry light area has yellow tine.
The egg has gone bad.
Eggplant is like a mirror and it is really hard to paint reflected color objects on it without the color shapes looking like stickers.
Colors do not reflect all that much onto other objects unless they're glossy and dark like an eggplant, which is kind of how mirrors work. The only other reflected color I saw was a hint of yellow on the cabbage from the lemon and banana, but the cabbage did not pick up red from the strawberry. Strawberry isn't reflective enough. Lemon did pick up a hint of blush from the strawberry. Tomatoes are glossy, but they didn't pick up the banana next to them. Egg did not pick up strawberry red.
I'm committing suicide by fume and zero-ventilation.