No. 0191 LTCH

This study was supposed to tell me what I'm missing from my paintings. I realised as soon as I did the hook, but felt the need to spend several more days finishing the whole bloody thing.

Believe it or not, I don't actually like hyperrealism. I find it boring... might as well take a photo instead? It's really impressive that someone is able to even capture that much realism and I've seen people better at it than me, but I can't look at a hyper realism piece as much as a piece with more style. I feel like I'm looking at it for the novelty of it looking like a photograph instead of admiring the art.

I'm aiming for an oil painting-esque look to my paintings while exaggerating slightly on reflective surfaces ( because they're the fun bits ) But I think I've not done enough studies from life and instead have referenced art I admire or photographs too much. As a result of that, there's a particular flatness to parts of my work. Especially the difficult parts that I have to grind through.

I did most of this in photoshop but realised 2/3rds of the way through that my signature graininess was missing, so dissatisfied, I swapped back to the ever unreliable Corel Painter :I

Not sure if this counts as "Still life" because the only things that are alive here are the grapes and they're definitely on their way to expiration.

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