Makers child, that is realistic :3

aah i do so love still life pieces. amazing job on the cutting board! i'm really liking the detail in the onion as well.
fantastic piece :D

Colors are so beautiful. 8D

because the only thing i can eat when i'm hammered on apple juice is onions

Excellent. I need to learn how to paint.

Man! That is beautiful! :D You really got all the colors perfect. How do you do that? To differentiate the colors, I mean? Any tips on it?

I saved a bunch of screen shots of this one while i was working on it so i plan on making a mini tutorial. But when i start a piece i use a soft edge brush and just poop some colors out onto the canvas, what ever colors i see. That way from the start i have some great pop colors. Also, when i make a still life i choose complimentary colors a lot; so a combination of those two things and a black background (or at least near black) really amp up the colors

Thank you for the compliments and i'm glad you like it :D

Excellent to read that! I will eagerly await the tutorial ;)

And no prob ;) my pleasure seeing your work :D

Also, thanks for taking the time to reply and explain me your process. I think your process is like this: for what I understand about this, you apply high values of the colors you see (the purest perhaps) and then mute them, keeping the pure areas the ones of interest. The complimentary is, I believe, composition-wise, hence to call the viewer's attention too. The black bg is a nice tip: I use dark ones when painting, but I use them since the beginning of the pic, as white burns my eyes X-D hehehe! Do you do that too?
I am sorry if my comment(s) is(are) too long ^-^; and I'm even more sorry if I am too bold to ask you for a favor? I was wondering if I could answer a couple of question regarding color? I know a bit, but you are way higher than me. Would you mind if I sent you a note?

heh, dont worry!

I prefer to not use a white background because when you finally do place highlights, having the highlight be the only white in the entire image really lets it pop. I think even when working in grayscale working on a midtone is better, because it makes the eye more sensitive to the changes in value that you see.

and yeah feel free to throw me a note any time, and ill try to answer and make some sense XD

Thanks ;)
Completely agree with the white use in the image :) The grayscale tip is a good one: I haven't worked with it (I use the colors and mix them to create the different values of the shapes, but I don't get good results, so I'll give it a shot to see if my color sensitivity builds up.

Thank you for that! :D I'm quite sure any answer you give me will be clarifying ^-^ I'll write in a few days.

its a glass of white grape juice :P

and thank you :> im so glad people enjoy it! its loads of fun to paint food :D

all of my works are forsale or for print purchase : )
this one is digital so i would be happy to make a print and ship signed if wanted : )

That's some most delicious still life.

Gorgeous texture on the bamboo (?) cutting board.

im not actually sure what kind of wood it is, but it is def a pale softer wood with no finish, a friend of mine gave it to me :p

Still life paintings are always a nice look into an artist's drawing ability, and I think yours is excellent. It's very realistic with a nice acrylic-paint look. And yeah, I can see that you put a great amount of work into that cutting board. However, the thing that caught my eyes was the glass of white grape juice/apple juice/...juice, and how it gives that distorted reflection of the onion bulb and leeks. Then again, shiny things always catch my eye. XD

The only thing that I can criticize, if I wanted to be nit picky, is the red onion. In my mind, an onion's skin is thinner than paper, very delicate, and transparent. The flakes on the cutting board and that piece of skin hanging above the onion half look to be as thick as flower petals. But, like I said, I might just be being nit picky. I'm sure trying to get this amount of detail would be well beyond my level of patience. It's an enjoyable piece, regardless.

thank you for your comment! and as nit picky as you say your comment is, all comments help in the end and i appreciate the honesty : )
thank you! :>

dear lord. its beautiful.

I wish I could color half as good as you. @.@ /dies

I am in awe!

Onions=

Omigoodness the colors/lighting/shading are wonderful! Kudos!

Colors and textures in this are beautiful. :)

oh my, how pretty!