DJ Geribo

 

A couple of months ago, I painted a vegetable still life. I really enjoyed painting it and although I've been developing a more impressionistic, painterly style with my animal and nature artwork, for some reason I felt the desire to paint the still life in a photo-realistic way.

I liked the results! Now, I have no plans to go back to this style with my other artwork, but it was a nice change and something that I wanted to prove to myself, that I could still paint in a photo-realistic style. When I was starting out, that was my goal, to be able to make the animal or landscape or other nature scene that I was painting look like it was a photograph. But as I've grown as an artist, I've decided that I want my paintings to look like paintings, not photographs. Still, it was fun painting the still lifes and I have gotten a lot of positive comments on them.