Still life set up. Pros and cons

oilpainter1950 · February 28

I'd like some of you to give me some feed back about this set-up. I'm not satisfied with it yet, but don't quite know what to do about it.

Abstraction · February 28

I'm NO expert in design, please take my comments with a pinch of salt. I'll just tell you what I see.

I find my eye is draw irrevocably to the grapes (light against dark and all the lines), but then my eye wants to go to the horse's head which is near the other edge and crosses the 'dead' patch in the middle as though it's split and there are two points of interest. The split is the problem I think. We cannot look at the horse without looking for its head. As a marketer once said to me, 'the eyes engage.' But it's not a point of rest because the rest of the painting pulls me back to the grapes.

oilpainter1950 · March 1

@Abstraction that makes sense to me.

allforChrist · March 1

I don't like two competing greens of such equal height. That is the first impression that jumps out at me

oilpainter1950 · March 1

@allforChrist Thank you. Looks like I'll need to re vamp this.

KingstonFineArt · March 1

@oilpainter1950
I can't get beyond the harsh light. The objects are all at the same height of interest.

anwesha · March 1

i like the setup.. can you also have a look how the setup looks with the light source from top-right and also top-right-a little to the back , maybe some some beautiful shadows appear.
The grapes individually look great, but together form a boxy shape that is unlike its graceful tapering look, so, may be adjusting the grapes a little...

oilpainter1950 · March 1

@KingstonFineArt I'm going to start all over. Thanks for the input.

oilpainter1950 · March 1

@anwesha I'm just going to start all over. Thank you for the pointers. Always appreciate your comments.

Boudicca · March 2

Hey, i know you said you were starting over but I would like to say that the shadow of the horse and the green reflection of the vase onto the background were very effective

oilpainter1950 · March 2

@Boudicca I liked the horse's shadow too. I'll try to incorporate that into the next setup. Thanks for commenting.

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