Tuesday, December 14, 2010

ANOTHER PRESENT

I started another wrapped box and will give this one a black background.  I think it needs a bit more ooph to the painting.



Again, using a lot of oranges and reds and yellows in the combination of colors.
















After adding the background in with Lamp Black (and getting a bit messy at the edges of the box), I played with getting more dimension to the ribbon but it's not as good as the first one.




Another 8" x 10" on Fabriano 140# hotpress watercolor paper.

5 comments:

Teresa Palomar Lois said...

I'm starting to want to open these...

Caroline Simmill said...

It is interesting to see the difference putting a dark background made to your painting, the red and yellow became much bright. The first one is more delicate and I was going to say stop it looks beautiful as it is, then I scrolled down to see you had carried on! Beautifully drawn and painted the shape of the box is really nice.

RH Carpenter said...

Teresa, you'll just have to imagine what's inside :)

Thanks, Caroline, for stopping by and commenting. I maybe should have just put the box on a table and not done the whole background, but it looked a bit bare just sitting there without some grounding.

Pam Johnson Brickell said...

Ah but the magic box looks like it's tempting us to open it.... just out of reach :)

RH Carpenter said...

Thanks, Pam. I guess you could say it's a magic box and that's why it looks like it's floating!! Good idea! ha ha