Paola Luther is an award winning artist with a delicate touch and sense of light and color. 

Paola has been painting since childhood. As an adult she became a professional artist in fine arts attending several years of intense ateliers training in the Washington DC area and Los Angeles.  Paola has participated in multiple workshops with talented artists around the world. She has produced colorful plein-air pieces, commissioned paintings and portraits.  Paola’s original works can be found in private collections in the United States and Europe.

Paola is usually painting in her studio in Los Angeles, CA.

I appreciate your thoughts on my painting. I just finished another sunset painting which I will post soon

Thank you

Thank you Renee. I appreciate it

A concept with a visual spark, a clear idea, two contrasting colors, and an elegant and calming design where the main character dressed with bright, breathtaking color and emotional rendering is complemented and supported by secondary actors. The red grape painted with expressive brushstrokes holds the lightest lights and the darkest darks.  The secondary characters let the eye of the viewer travel through the composition but there is no doubt that the color red holds the attention.

A painting that can call the viewer from afar to invite him to finish the narrative. A direct painter, David captivates the harmony between the beauty and the mystery of these simple spheres floating in a sort of magical world. His critical eye on design is ratified with a clear read in the composition where the focus is strategically placed considering the well known rule of thirds. 

A balanced application of brushstrokes and palette knife to create sumptuous and dramatic textures. The title is so simple that sparks the imagination of the viewer. The story is told with color relationships, shapes and design. 

The light is augmented as if it transcends the real world. There is an energy and a flow that elevates the concept of a contemporary still life. The objects move beyond the mundane and achieve greatness with a presence that provokes a feeling. The colorful light shines bright on the darkest dark to create the highest contrast.

The elongated shape brings elegance to the sphere and the casting shadow with the darkest blue complements its opposite color orange creating tension and harmony. Notice the two highlights on the red grape, one cool on the top area of the grape and a warm yellow highlight on the warmer area that feels like a light emanates from the object. The complexity of the red grape holds the most detail, the highest value contrast, the most saturated color and the thickest texture. The supporting actors are there to balance the composition but they clearly hold a secondary role.  

The vibrancy and transparency of the painting is balanced with thin and translucent dark colors complemented by thick and opaque lighter colors. The delicate equilibrium of saturate and desaturate colors in tactical places shows the mastery of the medium.

There is a dimensionality and sculptural quality to the objects that are carried by color choices and edge control. 

Finally, the viewers' eyes may linger in this painting for longer than a gaze to a museum masterpiece, but it is not for the lack of clarity but for the calming nature of the greens and blues in the background with its subtle changes in color temperature. The tactile quality of those thick highlights along with the intense transparency of that red grape absorb the viewer's attention and lets their eyes rest on the subtle textures of the green grapes.  The balancing act of giving the viewer plenty of room to rest the eye is a compositional tool that only experience and practice foment.  Noting that the real estate occupied by that colorful and red grape in the board is insignificant, the painting seems bright and colorful because it is limited to a small space. The painting becomes about that red object. 

Color and light are my passion

Thank you.

Thank you Andrew. Yes, edge control was one of the objectives

Thank you for you deep and eloquent critic. I appreciate your close up look at my painting

Thank you. I love buying and painting sunflowers

Thank you Chuck. Every time I go there to watch the surfers and take photo references it feels like a happy, relaxing and care-free world

Thank you Chuck. Every time I go there to watch the surfers and take photo references it feels like a happy, relaxing and care-free world

The beauty of the ocean in those few minutes of sunset light captured

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