From the Artist: I have been painting for about three years and paint in oil, pastel, and watercolor. I am in various art associations and enjoy painting very much. I have sold 50 paintings in the last three years.
From the Painting Guide: I think you've got a good arrangement of elements in this painting, with the wine bottle initially attracting the eye, but then the mixture of fruit pulling the viewer in.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: It's most likely just the way the photo was cropped, but the 'horizon line' isn't level, which distracts the eye (and creates a feeling that things are going to slide left any moment now). Always check that horizontal lines in a painting are indeed horizontal, and if you want a line to be at an angle, make it a definite angle, not one that's just off the horizontal which looks accidental.
If this is intended as a realist painting, which I think it is, then the placement of the fruit stand on the edge doesn't make sense. If the surface is flat where the bottle is standing, what is the fruit stand resting on?
I find the bit of the bottle cover going up between the neck of the bottle and the fruit a distraction. I would have either forced it behind the bottle, used artistic license to leave it out, or had it on the other side of the bottle neck. With the latter, it'd lead the viewer's eye from the corner into the painting; as it is now it leads your eye up and out the top of the painting.
From the Painting Guide: I think you've got a good arrangement of elements in this painting, with the wine bottle initially attracting the eye, but then the mixture of fruit pulling the viewer in.
Things to Consider When Looking at This Painting:
Composition: It's most likely just the way the photo was cropped, but the 'horizon line' isn't level, which distracts the eye (and creates a feeling that things are going to slide left any moment now). Always check that horizontal lines in a painting are indeed horizontal, and if you want a line to be at an angle, make it a definite angle, not one that's just off the horizontal which looks accidental.
If this is intended as a realist painting, which I think it is, then the placement of the fruit stand on the edge doesn't make sense. If the surface is flat where the bottle is standing, what is the fruit stand resting on?
I find the bit of the bottle cover going up between the neck of the bottle and the fruit a distraction. I would have either forced it behind the bottle, used artistic license to leave it out, or had it on the other side of the bottle neck. With the latter, it'd lead the viewer's eye from the corner into the painting; as it is now it leads your eye up and out the top of the painting.