Help me become a Professional Artist

[Joe]

Good start on the still life stuff! From that and your masters studies it looks like you have a good eye for translating what you see, you should exploit it for all it's worth :)

you mighten be able to squeeze a little extra outta the still life if you think of them as a way to test what you've learn so far... eg you mentioned Gurney' color and light in my sketchbook, it has loads of information about light set ups and colour can you use that to guess how to colour an object based on it's local color and the light source, can you guess the color of the shadow side based on the ambient light. untimely you just paint what you see, but it's a good dialogue to have going on in your head because you'd are thinking about all the things you'll need to know when drawing it from imagination.

good chance to practice some basic perspective construction too, if you get a chance to throw that into your still life mix :)