Final - Still Life
Overall thoughts and learnings: For my final art piece, I chose to create a still life composition. My aim was to strike a balance between a challenging subject that would push my developing skills and not overextending myself with something overly complex. In this composition, I featured a small pear, a green apple, and a mug with a paintbrush resting inside its handle. The most demanding aspect of this piece was achieving the correct interplay of shadows, particularly on the mug and between the various fruits. The fruits themselves presented an intricate play of multiple shadows, cast both by the mug and by each other. While I believe I managed the shadows reasonably well, there's definitely room for improvement, particularly in refining the values. One of the challenges I encountered was finding the right values for the pear. Initially, they appeared too bright, and I only discovered this after working on the piece and comparing values. I went back and darkened the pear, but I f