Green Apple

15x15'' Acrylic on canvas. Available for Purchase. 

Getting the colors and values right.

When we are kids, and we are learning how to paint, often the teacher will suggest for us to learn how to see, to look closely to our subject to detect every variation in shape, but not so often we are asked to approach color in the same way. If you look at an apple, there are many different tones of green, yellow, and orange. Getting them wrong  or  painting the whole apple without variation will look as bad as  getting the shape of the apple wrong. I’m convinced that if you get the tone of the color right, then color will becomes the main  subject of the painting an shape would become the supporting role.
Tone variations are easier to see when we are working with one color only, in this case, green.