From the Artist: I'm a self-taught painter and love to play around with different subjects but I got quite excited about this apple core and how beautiful even an eaten apple can look...
From the Painting Guide: I have this vision of your stopping eating apples at different stages to do a whole series of apple-core paintings! It's an intriguing variation on the traditional apple still life.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Tone of Shadows: Squint your eyes and compare the tone of red apple skin at the bottom of the apple and the browns of its shadow -- you'll see that they're very close or similar in tone. I think that at the very base of the apple, where it's resting on the surface, the tone needs to be darker. Similarly, on the underneath of the top of the apple, where it's overhung by the red top. If the light is coming from the right, as implied by the shadow in the brown surface, then I'd expect there to be a slightly stronger shadow there too.
Apple Stem: Also take another look at the tones around where the apple stem is joined to the apple. There's usually some sort of indentation in the apple where the stem is, and to me this doesn't show in your painting.
From the Painting Guide: I have this vision of your stopping eating apples at different stages to do a whole series of apple-core paintings! It's an intriguing variation on the traditional apple still life.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Tone of Shadows: Squint your eyes and compare the tone of red apple skin at the bottom of the apple and the browns of its shadow -- you'll see that they're very close or similar in tone. I think that at the very base of the apple, where it's resting on the surface, the tone needs to be darker. Similarly, on the underneath of the top of the apple, where it's overhung by the red top. If the light is coming from the right, as implied by the shadow in the brown surface, then I'd expect there to be a slightly stronger shadow there too.
Apple Stem: Also take another look at the tones around where the apple stem is joined to the apple. There's usually some sort of indentation in the apple where the stem is, and to me this doesn't show in your painting.