My choice of composition
was difficult because it had to be centered on ordinary objects
that one expects to be a certain color. This prerequisite
immediately eliminated most things produced by humans. In
the plastic world of today, it isn’t shocking to see ordinary
objects in new colors. Another condition I used in selecting
a composition was to avoid brown. Although there are red browns,
yellow browns, and blue browns, I found that most browns didn’t
change much when the base color emphasis was changed. So many
animal pictures were immediately out of the running. What
I chose is a simple natural composition, with leaves and berries
abound. Most people expect these natural things to fall within
a fairly limited color range. Hence, it seemed a change in
color would be most noticeable in a subject like this one.
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In some ways, the result is definitely
different from reality, but in others, it is surprisingly
familiar. Initially, this composition looked strikingly different
from the original. If in a real woods, in full daylight, it
would be breathtaking to see a sea of purple leaves. But,
since this is a painting, if one imagines this to be a picture
of the woods at dusk, these colors are almost passable as
the real world. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the leaves
in a wood appear purplish at dusk, because in the back of
my head I would know they are actually green. In the end,
however, the painting does demonstrate a simple point; the
color scheme of our world isn’t necessary. We could easily
have lived in a world where purple represented lush life,
in a dense wood.
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