I've been playing with an economy of action in painting. Less flourish, less color, less depth. Not necessarily in a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sort of "less is more" but a way to find richness in other design elements like texture and composition. I limited the palette to a cobalt blue, yellow ochre and red oxide. All the objects were essentially white. It's surprising to see how much color exists in white scene. I treated the bottles like actors to be blocked on stage. Some are in shadow some are in full light and some catch just a sliver of light. But maybe I'm just anthropomorphizing the bottles. I wonder if artist William Bailey
thought of them that way or Giorgio Morandi
even.
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