Strawberries & Cream

Strawberries and Cream

Sunday, I began working on some still life photos to add to the art selections here on the website.  I started with working on some perfume bottle pieces as a warm up.  (see them in the still life section)  What I was working up to was a piece like Strawberries and Cream.  This is  a style of creation which is somewhat new to me, especially in regards to objects, so I always do some warm up art to prepare myself.  It's just an added blessing when the warm up art turns out good enough to publish as well. :)

I have some delightful old tea pots, cups, bowls and pitchers I used to play with at my grandparents house as a child.  Looking at them in my dining room fostered the desire to create something artistic with their photos.  This creamer pitcher used in Strawberries and Cream is not part of the set however.  I picked it up about a year ago.  Here's a little tip for artists looking for cool, old things for still life photos and paintings:  go to your thrift stores or Goodwill stores.  This small pitcher was picked up at my local Goodwill store, purely for the intention of artistic creation.  These stores are a great place to pick up wonderful collectibles -- not just for adding to your collection, but also for your artistic purposes.

For this still life art, I first photographed the antique creamer alone.  Then I added the bowl digitally from another photo.  And the strawberries and cream in the bowl from yet another photo.  So this finished creation is actually a compilation of three photos to create the old world, vintage still life look I was after.  I added approximately six textures, plus made color adjustments, darkened some areas, smoothed some areas, etc, to get to this finished art.  

Take a look at where I started the process, and compare it to the finished design in the photo below.  Strawberries and Cream is now a beautiful work of art, perfect for hanging on your dining room or kitchen wall.  Want to add it to your kitchen in a small way?  Check out this lovely tile trivet.

InJoy,

Jai

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