| This
be a still life, in case you couldn't already tell. Cropping
the sandollar in the upper righthand corner was intentional
-- as if to "tease" the viewer with what the rest
of that shell must look like. Activating the beholder's
imagination -- as in any good book or movie -- is key to
a work of art. Being predictable, not so much.
The
assignment was to use a pair of complimentary colors --
in this case, blue and orange -- and only those colors.
So that's what I did. While I was at it, I took advantage
of those colors to depict the table and blue background
-- a surreal kind of shoreline, as it were. |
