Progress: Still Life #1

When I started working on the still life one of the biggest struggles off rip was trying to make an interesting composition without using too many complicated objects. My original idea involved a flower, a wood carving, and a clock. Thankfully Coach knocked some sense into me and I got rid of the clock and agreed to simplify the carving in the painting. In the end I had this final composition.

After getting the composition down I sketched it out with charcoal and began painting, but from the beginning I had some issues in correctly drawing the shapes and having the right perspective on the objects.

In the end I was not happy at all with how it was looking when compared to the actual still life, and I had also been having issues with finding a correct consistency for the paint and in the end I finally made the decision to paint over the majority of the painting and start from scratch on many of the different parts, which in the end I believe was the right course of action.