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Painting Critiques

Jess Paskel
The Bouquet, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12" (30 x 30 cm)

Great design, Jess. e drawing is excellent with clear
shapes, and you’ve handled the modelling of the form well,
except for the red rose, which looks like it’s made from a
folded napkin. You dropped the ball on that one. Also,
I think your grey background feels a little dead and that

grey has seeped into the colours in your owers and left
them muddied in a few spots. I wondered for quite some
time about how I might enhance this if it were mine, and

what nally came to me, I illustrate in the Photoshop
altered version below, where I’ve done three things:

1. Intensi ed some of the reds in the pink and red rose.
2. Added a red wash over the background
to harmonize the whole painting.
I also tried it with a grey/green
gradated background.

3. Soften a few edges o to add more
variation and interest to the painting.
With a grey/
I hope that helps a little. Great work! green gradated
background
Fiddled in Photoshop

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