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Sweet Temptation by Tessa Birks

Reader Submissions: Daily Art #18 A Chocolate

From Tessa Birks

 Sweet Temptation by Tessa Birks

Sweet Temptation

Title and Medium

Title:Sweet Temptation

Materials: Acrylic paint on stretched canvas

Size: 230mmx250mm

Artist's Statement

It was very tempting to eat the yummy chocolates before I could paint them', have eaten them now and they were delicious. I had fun painting chocolates, had some trouble in getting the colour of chocolate but found by mixing burnt umber, burnt sienna and white it seem to work. Background is more of a chocolate colour than on picture. I think I would only paint three.

What I'd Do Differently

  • Should have only used three pieces of chocolate and made them larger in size, I am finding if difficult sometimes to paint on a small scale, normally I paint on much larger scale.
  • I like the doilie effect, also I am pleased about the chocolates.

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www.artfind.co.nz/artist/tessbirk

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