Patrick Coalfield studied at the Chelsea school of art from 1956 to 1960, and at the Royal college of art from 1960 to 1963. His work has a pop art style using flat colour and simple images with bold out lines. His later work uses a mix of styles for intense a simply shaped pop art like background but with a fish in the foreground on a plate with a detailed use of tone. To create striking contrast.
The use of negative space is a large aspect of his works as many are simple images with simple flat colour backgrounds that makes for a bold block of colour negating negative space. Others have a texture in keeping with the piece over a flat background of colour and some use massive white blocks of light to brake up negative space in a none abrasive way.
Its the blocks of light over flat coloured negative space with a simple bold line drawing that I have chosen to mimic to create my piece in his style.
I feel my piece would of been more successfully if the green had of been more uniformed and a bolder shade.
What are the difficulties in separating cast shadows from reflected light and shade.
The difficulties are that reflected light can be only a little lighter than shadow if allowed to be grouped together, betrays the shape of an object the same goes for strong reflected light. You can see in this piece were both have happened on the decanter.
The reflected shadow and light follows the contours of the objects. How have you shown this in your drawings.
The primary light sources reflection is split from were it hits the jug top to the bottom give a high light that follows the contours of the object giving more of an indication to it's shape and the shadow at the other side mirrors this. However The jugs reflection in the more shiny sugar pot is distorted to appear cylindrical thus the light giving a false account of the jugs shape.
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