This is my second painting for my painting class. I used acrylic paints on a 16" x 20" canvas; titled "Fruit Bowl #2". The theme for this second unit was: fruits and vegetables. Hence, the fruit (+ one vegetable) bowl. :) The inspiration from this one came from an art work (glue and pastels on black construction paper) that I did back in my first grade year of school (1993, age 6; see photo below). After the completion of my pastel, my art teacher at the time entered it into an art contest -my piece won and was displayed at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) for a period of time. When this unit came up, I was discussing some ideas with my mom when she said, "You need to do another fruit bowl!" I was hoping to keep the fruit in the bowl as similar as possible to what I had originally done, but at the same time still make it its own painting. I'm very happy with how this one turned out. It's life-like but not as precise as a photograph. However, I don't think this is really my style. I'm somewhat of a perfectionist so when I first started painting it, I wanted it to look very realistic (which it does, but my initial vision for the painting did not look like the end result at all). I'm still trying to figure out what my painting style is, and I think this painting helped me with trying to find out.
[[photo of 1st grade fruit bowl coming soon for comparison]]
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