Pat Fiorello - Art Elevates Life

Art & Inspiration from professional artist and instructor Pat Fiorello. Pat is known for her romantic landscape, garden and floral paintings in oil and watercolor. Her paintings often depict beautiful places like Italy and France. Pat teaches painting workshops in the U.S., Caribbean and Europe. She is passionate about inspiring others to include art in their life. Whether creating it or simply appreciating and enjoying it, there are so many ways that art elevates life!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Painting Silver and Roses



Silver & Roses
12 x 16 Oil Painting
by Pat Fiorello


Working on depicting silver last week. It's easy to get too hard edged and literal on the reflections which I did at first, then had to scrape off the paint and start again. Basically I learned that the approach is similar to a ceramic vessel, get the big light and shadows first to capture the form and dimensionality, then add the reflections on much as you would add decoration or pattern on a ceramic vase. Form first, surface decoration  ( in this case reflections) later. I'll try to remember that.

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