What do you think about this painting by Felix Zachariah?
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A darker background would’ve made the image come off much better, would’ve created an adequate contrast to emphasize the greens and reds of the melons. I think you can improve on how you render an objects interaction with a space with respect to shadows and volume, you tried to render a shadow on the smallest cut part of the melon but it didn’t really click. Don’t think this would pass for a hyperrealistic painting, you have an eye for the big things but not yet for the small things, it’s an impressionistic presentation at best (which I feel was not your end goal), the choice of colors could be better too to personalize the emotional response your audience might give back. What to do from here is that you should look at more paintings, Rembrandt’s and Caravaggio’s still life paintings would be enlightening for you, and practice too. All that being said, from one artist to another, much respect. Stay safe man