[^ Lime with Pink Bottle. oil on panel. 5×7″. February 2013. © Bullock Online 2013]
These small oil sketches really help me to work through ideas, compositions, shapes, and to gauge colors and values. I have not translated any of them up into larger ‘finished’ works yet because of space limitations, but just working through these small pieces and having a result in one or two sittings is really helpful.
In this I wanted to sort of sidestep a complimentary color relationship, and aimed more for a pink than a red, placed opposite a bright, banging green. Accurately rendering the shape of the lime was important because I did not want it to be identifiable only by its color.
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