Trio of Choc

Here is the latest painting to come off the easel, even tho this was completed a few weeks ago i had to keep quiet from posting it on line as this was a commission for the clients wife's 40th birthday.

The client had already selected a composition he was happy with from a number of photos that i had taken as reference, he wanted three specific chocolate bars as they were his wife's favourite ones. And so i had to start the painting and fast, as it was for a specific date so i needed to paint it and get it framed for late October and thankfully i managed to do it all in time.

I started the painting with the wrong mind set thinking as it was one of my smaller sizes at 18" x 18" it shouldn't take to many hours to complete, but how wrong i was i started applying the colours of the drifter and was happy but then came the lettering and its then i started to realise i needed to change the way i was thinking and slow down to capture the correct colours shapes and sizes if i wanted this painting to work.

 

Trio of Choc

18" x 18"

Oil on wooden Panel

 

SOLD

 

I was so pleased that the Mars wrapper had a reflection in the wrapper other wise potentially the black would have looked a bit flat but this also caused me a slightly different problem as usually i paint the backgrounds with mixes of blacks and greys and worried that if i used these typical colours the Mars bar could be lost and so a mix of ultramarine blues whites and burnt umber created a different background that allowed the mars to hold its own in the image.

Thankfully she loved her birthday gift and cried when she received it from her husband, and she was kind enough to post on my Facebook time line with the following "Wow what an amazing 40th pressie I love love love it .... Thank-you so much ... I had a few tears when I opened it .....it's the best pressie anyone could wish for"

Its lovely comments like this that just make painting all the more special to me