Lolaso

Eggs Over Easy             In my artwork, I was trying to use round figures to portray an open egg inside of a flowery bowl. To accomplish this, my strokes were in a circular motion, instead of a straight line. My most difficult challenge was finding the right colors for the shadow. I feel like my left half of the egg looks much more like the picture than any other part of the painting.

            In this piece, I tried to paint three objects with only 7 to 10 patches of color alla prima, making it look like one of Peggi Kroll’s work. To make this possible, I separated my colors into shapes and tried not to separate colors into as many shapes as I had done before in previous works such as the one in “Don’t Touch the Edges”. My piece had a nail polish through which the viewer could see the green paper in the background as the light penetrated the glass in it. There is only one shadow on the green paper as I tried to use as few patches of colors as possible. The most challenging part was the nail polish in the center because it was the center of attention and needed more work done onto it than the other two objects—a mechanical blue pencil and a red cup. But, I do believe that the nail polish in the center worked out pretty well.             This time, my p...