pen and ink

A well done piece of work here. The composition is nice leading my eye from the collection of white spaces and red/orange hues to the vase and spreading out and around the rest through the branches. I like the contrast of objects that are far away in comparison to objects that are closer. It really presents a sense of depth to the piece. What I love most about this piece is the dominance and contrast of the bright orange bottle and the way this work is painted which represents that of a classical oil painting but with modern objects. However, some technical flaws pop out to me. The spilled wash or ink on the table and paper appears more like stains rather than liquid. I suppose it could have been sitting there long enough for the liquid to evaporate but the way this is set up, it appears freshly spilled. If you wanted it to look freshly spilled you need to add more light reflection in the spill to make it look like liquid. Certain highlights and reflections of the shapes around it would do the trick. Also some of the objects don't look as round as they should be. Now if you really wanted this to look like a classical piece, that would be acceptable because paintings back in those days also had very flat shapes and used no ambient light to really give the objects a 3D space. The ambient light is also the light that is reflected on objects from other objects reflections or atmospheric light. When you hold your hands parallel to each other in a bright light the reflection of the light from one hand will illuminate the other parallel hand even in shadow. But I'm pretty sure your familiar with this. You're no idiot, I can see that from this painting. -_^ Great work!