Janet fish

• Style - The style of the painting is realistic. This is seen in the extremely detailed application of tone seen in the reflections of the packaging, this takes time making the fruit and packaging look very life-like.
• Style - Fish's uses accurate and smooth brushstrokes, seen in the packaging where colours are blended and no brushstrokes can be seen this allows the packaging to look smooth and realistic to the material of plastic.
• Subject matter - The 4 apples are shown in an unnatural setting as thy have been wrapped in a plastic packaging, highlighting they are mass produced creating a sense of coldness/ rigidness to the painting.
• Subject matter - The plastic tightly covering the apples portrays this idea of suffocation as it is shown in the relentless held in place apples with no excess room
• Scale - Janett Fish works on a big canvas 72 cm x 86 cm scaling the painting up has created a larger then life feeling
• Scale - The large scale of the work allows each apple to take up a quarter. Allowing fish to easily add detail to make the piece eye catching and realistic
• Scale - Janet Fish large size has allowed her to use strong colours with big brushstrokes making her painting striking and creates a strong visual impact.
• Composition - Although no clear focal point, the large size of the apples being 1/4 of the painting creates a balanced and organised composition, again giving it a man made/unnatural look
• Composition - The focal point is the apples as they are the only thing in the painting with each apple being given importance due to the neat layout of the 4 apples
• Composition - the tight highlighted plastic on the apples acts as leading lines as the highlighted flash across all 4 apples it helping connect the apples and draw your eyes round the whole painting
• Mood and Atmosphere - The subject matter of tightly packaged apples with intense bright light gives the painting a sense of order and rigidness creating an unnatural/artificial atmosphere
• Mood and atmosphere - The use of bright warm colours seen in the apples creates a warm and cheerful mood, again tempting the viewers to eat the apples
• Media/ Techniques - Fish uses smooth brush strokes on the bright white highlights which gives the impression of a shiny plastic surface
• Media/ techniques - Fish has used smooth broken brush strokes on the apples to make them look realistic and allow them to stand out as the focal point
• Line - There are straight lines shown in the packaging of the apples. this is in contrast to the curved and natural lines of the apples
• Line - Highlighted lines of the shiny reflections on the packaging, helping to show how tight the packaging is over the apples to secure the apples in place and to keep them fresh. Within these lines you can see curved lines that appear distorted. These appear to be reflections of the light appearing onto the apples
• Shape - Use of natural organic shapes of the apples in the subject matter
• Shape - There are circular shapes and distorted rectangle shapes on the apples created by the stretched cellophane, showing the movement of light that is reflected and creating leading lines in painting
• Texture - Fish uses smooth brush strokes and shiny highlights to show the glazed surface of the packaging, making it look realistic
• Texture - Bright white highlights to show how shiny and smooth the plastic covering the apples is
• Colour - use of hot and cool colours to create contrast and help the fruit stand out as the focal point. use of hot red on the apples and the cold purple packaging. Fish does this to draw your eyes to the hot colour and make the fruit stand out as the focal point.
• Colour - Fish also uses a bright white tone on the packaging which draws your attention to the apples under showing it as the focal point
• Tone - Fish has included dark shadows under the fruit to make them look 3D and solid
• Tone - The artist has used different shades of red on the apples to make them look 3D and realistic
• Pattern - There is a natural due to the apples being repeated
• Pattern - Symmetrical pattern with the 4 neat apples they have been packaged, however each apples sits in a different position under the plastic
• Form - Fish is interested in showing 3D form in her work and uses tone on the objects to make them look realistic