Egg IX

5x7 acrylic on hardboard panel

I liked the raw egg on the countertop sketch so much that I came back to the idea again.... included the shell, this time. For sure thats the most difficult aspect of this painting, something about how they have to look so fragile and still be hard-edged and geometrically correct, solid and shaded but still like the light is shining across the outside and onto the inside... and a little bit through the inside and appearing on the shadow-side outside. Fussy little things :) Still, as always, it was fun. And interesting. Rich yellows show up so wonderfully against pale and pale and pale, its so nice...

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