Wednesday, November 14, 2007



SCALE
is this week's theme at Illustration Friday. I guess the week is almost over actually. But I prefer to take a wider view of these things: it's Illustration Friday ALL WEEK in my opinion!

I was interested to see so many varying interpretations of the theme...musical scales, fish scales, weighing scales, proportional scale and what have you. I'm going for small scale here. This is one of the smallest paintings I have ever done, yet the objects are slightly larger than life-size! It's all relative.

Small Candy, 3 1/2 x 5 inches, oil on canvas laid to board

12 comments:

alex said...

I LOVE this! The colors are wonderful, and the reflection sublime!

Brine Blank said...

Great...super job on the reflections, especially considering the small scale of the painting itself...

LeChHe said...

I really like your idea for scale. It's definitely a different approach. The reflections are great and it makes we want to eat the candy!

Gary said...

Wow, you did a very good job of making the candy look real. the color scheme was also very well choosen

Z said...

wow! Its very realistic, and the colors are very well balanced

ottoblotto said...

most excellent work

Digital Scott's Illustrationblog said...

Really well done! Lovely.

Tracy said...

This is really great! I love it :) Thanks for your helpful tip about big=beautiful in Hawaii (for my upcoming trip!) :)

studio lolo said...

A larger than life, stunning piece. I can smell the peppermints, Brachs, I believe :)

platitudinal said...

I always enjoy my visit to your blog. Your art works are stunning.

Joan Y said...

I can't believe this is so small! The reflections are absolutely perfect!

Unknown said...

Love yr work!