Three Against One   oil  5.75x4.5
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Another jelly beans and a slice.  Painted this one in class with my students. I think this theme needs to be painted large, so that I can really explore all the value and color richness in the beans and the shadows.

In a Sea of Beans oil  8x6

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Jelly beans and a slice.  The lesson of this one is that the slice of apple is perpendicular to the light source and so is the highest value in the painting.  It's actually pretty hard to see that because the paper is white and if something is white our brains automatically see it as the lightest value. I think making the slice the highest value gives the painting it's sense of light

Attack of the Jelly Beans  oil  5.75x4.5
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I started this little series yesterday- apple slices and jelly beans.  I did these as demos for my students for a lesson on edges.  The shadows of the fruit and the jelly beans provide an opportunity for lots of soft edges. And because the beans are translucent it's a chance to see a lot of color in the shadows.