All of these dessert paintings are wonderful, but this one really did it for me. Love the way you reflected the red from the strawberries onto the pastry and cream. Wonderful use of dark purples in the berries just under the cream. The touches of turquoise in the pastry and cream add so much interest and I love the warm yellow glow against the shadow of the cream dollop on top. I also like the lost edges of the plate and the purple shadows. Great use of highlights. GREAT JOB period!
Hall Groat II is a Professor at Broome Community College in New York where he teaches foundation courses in Fine Arts. He earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree at Brooklyn College in 1992, studying classical oil painting with Lennart Anderson and Lois Dodd.
Groat has had solo exhibitions at Roberson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Washington and Jefferson College, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Finger Lakes Community College, Cazenovia College, Lemoyne College, and many other institutions.
In 2004 he was included in an exhibition at the Roberson Museum Center, entitled Cosmos and Chaos: A Cultural Paradox, with artists Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, Jerome Witkin and several others.
Groat is included in private and public collections internationally, including Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson College.
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ahhhhhhh I have gained some calories just lookin at this wonderful art....really nice, this is my fav desert......
All of these dessert paintings are wonderful, but this one really did it for me.
Love the way you reflected the red from the strawberries onto the pastry and cream. Wonderful use of dark purples in the berries just under the cream. The touches of turquoise in the pastry and cream add so much interest and I love the warm yellow glow against the shadow of the cream dollop on top. I also like the lost edges of the plate and the purple shadows. Great use of highlights. GREAT JOB period!
Thank you very much Gwen. I'm going to continue on with these icons of decadence.
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