{"id":86,"date":"2025-10-07T20:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:37:29","slug":"still-life-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/still-life-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"painting teacups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"89\" src=\"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9642-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"91\" src=\"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9698-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I painted these as part of an acrylic painting exercise in a Painting Processes class. We had the option to set up our own still-life scene, and something about a pair of blue teacups gave me the motivation to experiment with color schemes and perspective. I mostly consider these two pieces as color theory practice, and intentionally let the underpainting show for both paintings to give better emphasis to the subject matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the left, I worked with both blurring and defining the shadows of the subjects on the table. and how to best replicate desired hues and saturations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the piece on the right, I started the piece with the idea that I wanted to do a rendition of the still-life with an orange tint to it, and wanted to specifically do it from this type of close-up angle. I found that the ultramarine blue I used to sketch basic shapes for the underpainting helped the colors of the grapes stand out more, which then in turn emphasized the oval shape of these grapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I painted these as part of an acrylic painting exercise in a Painting Processes class. We had the option to set up our own still-life scene, and something about a pair of blue teacups gave me the motivation to experiment with color schemes and perspective. I mostly consider these two pieces as color theory practice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-practice","tag-acrylicpainting","tag-stilllife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeportfolio.org\/kflores\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}