Katie Benson Food Painting - Chichi Elements of Art Description

In Katie's painting, she creates texture to the ice cream with rough pats on the canvas to imply that the ice cream is being eaten. She uses value in every area in her painting to give the viewer location of the light source which is on the right side. She also incorporates value in the back with the castle by blurring it. The shapes are very precise and sharp and show both explicit and implied lines, and the form of the ice cream and the cup, which completes the shape, takes up most of the space in the painting, and the blurred castle implies or makes it look like there is space. The different colors used gives the painting a sense of where the light source is, and it gives the painting a contrasting look with the use of complementary colors.