I couldn’t resist when I was growing up. It has plenty of rough hand and footholds and splaying branches to sit on and be part of nature. It’s like a large hand reaching up to the sky with fingers spread out. Your nature paintings are usually studies of the microcosm normally found in the shadows of trees. It looks like this is a larger microcosm of a much larger landscape. It feels very serene yet there is visual excitement because you’ve brought the viewers attention to the part of the tree that branches out in all directions as the focus of the painting. Like the palm of a hand with all the fingers spread out.
Your Squash Oddity is very appealing to me. You have zoomed into your still life so that almost everything has it’s lines and shapes running off the edges of the canvas. This makes the viewer tend to look at all the parts and the eye is directed off and back into the painting. I like the way you play the forefront rounded shapes in contrast to the geometric squares and straight lines in the background. You do the same with color, making the background with neutral colors which makes your bright foreground colors pop, demanding attention.
The light source seems to be from above, looking like your objects are being lit by an overhead light fixture. You’ve caught this light beautifully in the sharpness of reflection on the bottle and in the peculiar way the glass bowl pools the light in the thickness of the glass on the curving bottom of the bowl. I especially admire the way you caught the visual distortion in the reflection of the dark red mat under the bowl. This painting has an intimate feel to it because you’ve drawn the viewer closer into the still life.
Very nice.
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