Color and apples

[Timothy C. Tyler]

There are some composition things going on here in regards to color and value. I very much wanted to have the apples make since as they passed around the figure-the arch and flow of them. I wanted even the direction of them to be obviuos from the hands. I also wanted the one red apple in the air to be near the red of the face, shirt and hands. The green apples were used elsewhere to make them less important and less distracting. I painted the apples' color and value very accurately then I adjusted the sky color so that it was the same value exactly as the green apples-again to make these less important.

I consider the figure to be the most important, then the secondary stuff (the apples) then lastly the background which was used to help the other stuff. Even the placement and shapes of the clouds was very much done to help the design.

If one draws lines from apple to apple (cross-wise)-you'll find these lines all intersect in the face. I place one additinal red apple in the lap so it would not be an orphan. The gold trim, especially at the very bottom is an essential part of the composition. If you cover it up the work is less balance and less interesting.I'll post a detail of that portion below.