Two Alla Prima Quick Studies

My sister Beth and I decided to set up a still life and to give ourselves an hour and paint it.  We had to stop when the timer went off.

I didn't think to take photo of the still life from two different angles because Beth sat at one of my painting tables, and I was at the other - on opposite sides of the still life.  So there is a photo reference for what I painted, but no photo reference for what Beth painted.

Here's the photo reference - the light was shining high above the still life.

Here is Beth's painting - you can see that the perspective is different from the photo above.



And here is my painting - which is from the same perspective as the photo reference.



No serious painting - just a good exercise in going ahead and putting paint on the panel and not getting caught up in small details.