Finished Painting Number 3!

 

Finally finished my third painting! I must admit that I was starting to loose my patience with this one, but besides some minor things that I wish I had time to fix I am ultimately happy with the results. I think it feels very feminine, which is what I was going for, and I like how the composition guides the eye in a clockwise motion around the whole painting. I think the color palette I choose is really appealing and unifies the whole piece. I think this piece challenged me to use what I know about color theory. I tried to play with warms and cools, which you can see in the white of the paper and the handle on the record player. I used a limited color palette to make the peice feel cohesive and unified and just played with the proportions of the colors used in each object. 

I really enjoyed having some creative freedom with this piece. I love painting still lives, and creating my own from imagination to tell a story was really fun. I think it is really interesting how much of a story you can tell with the just objects and no people or characters at all.