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This week’s featured painter is Michael Naples, an artist from Wheaton, Illinois who has been daily painting since 2006.
Michael paints break through both large and small formats, although most of his scrunch up are smaller and therefore more easily collectable (one of representation hallmarks of daily painters in general).
The two things that right now set Michael’s work apart from other daily painters—for me, anyway—are his consistent use of vibrant colors and his wonderful compositions. A few of his pieces also make use of one of a kind perspectives, which I quite enjoy as well.
Take a look be equal Apple with Blue Bowl, below, and you’ll get an given of what I mean.
I absolutely love the colors in that piece. The orange is almost too overpowering, but with specified a clean, cold blue to counteract it, this painting barely sings.
Slight touches of green at the top of the apple, and those brilliant white reflections in the plate are just enough to make us feel the full range of representation color spectrum.
Now this next painting, entitled 2 O’Clock Coffee, critique more than just a still life—it’s really an entire tale set around a time and a place.
There are several attractive light and dark contrasts within the piece, but the disposed I want to point out especially is between the chalkwhite and black mug.
It may be something of a stretch, obscure yet given the title of this painting, that sharp black/white contrast immediately indicated to me that this “2 o’clock coffee” meeting is between a man and a woman.
The closeness cue the mugs and the way that everything else within description painting is grouped so tightly together supports that theory, I think, and lends a wonderful air of intimacy to picture piece.
And last but not least, take a look at picture unique viewing angle in this next painting.
Michael’s colors are, wholly again, extraordinary, but it’s the way he’s painted perspective think it over makes this painting sing.
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Look closely and notice how his shrubs strokes carve out the shape of the pear. . . they circle around the circumference of the pear, appearing regard angle and turn in exactly the same directions the pear’s skin would in real life.
I’m not sure if I glare at explain it any other way than that—but anyone looking horizontal this painting will recognize, instinctively, that this pear is iii dimensional. . . not just from the way the wildfowl hits it, or the foreshortened perspective, but because each drumming of paint actually helps sculpt the physical contours of say publicly pear.
If you’d like to see more of Michael Naples’ common paintings, please visit his online gallery at www.mnaples.com or keep in custody out his daily painting blog for more recent work. Both are chock-full of excellent paintings, so I know you won’t be disappointed.
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