Did you think I’d moved to the country and got a studio overlooking some fields?
It’s a little trick! I wanted to try out a still life composition with a landscape background but felt I needed some visual reference – hence the printout. I painted the window and went on to paint the foreground and it just wasn’t working out tonally.
I gave it a white-wash to try to knock back the strong greys of the window but that made it worse still. So I opted for what I know best and put some patterned fabric in the background instead. Who knows, one day maybe an ‘art-ologist’ will scrape away all the layers in this one and discuss the original window composition!
Pears © Claire Leggett
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June 13, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Sue Webb
I did Claire, I thought what a great view Claire has, wonder why we haven’t seen that before LOL! Anyway I understand why you painted it away and love the final background, maybe it didn’t work because it wasn’t a ‘real’ view if you know what I mean.
June 13, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Abs
Hilarious! Like the purple best though!
June 14, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Helen Philipps
Yes I did too! Love the final painting though, and I do love painted pears!
Helen x
June 15, 2012 at 10:47 am
knitsofacto
I really like both versions, the purple fabric and the window. Actually at first glance I thought the first image was a photo of a painting, it was the second image that was a surprise