Tree Of Life By Winston Harris

All of the artwork at the James Wise Gallery were riveting; however, the particular piece of artwork I selected to write about stood out from the rest. The title of the piece is “Tree of Life”. Winston Harris, the artist of this piece, created the artwork by digital hand coloring. The first thing that caught my eyes were both vibrant and earthy colors within the piece. The second thing was all the different combinations of shapes throughout the piece. The third thing I noticed in the piece were all the lines going in every which way. Out of all the seven elements of art: line, shape, form, space, texture, value, and color, the elements color, shape, and line were the most apparent to me. The combination of three elements color, shape and line
At the center of the piece, there is a tree with light pink swirls on top as the leaves and a dark brown and green stump below it. The difference in hues between the light pink shade and the dark green and brown shades compliment the artwork. Behind the tree, there’s an earth with the colors white, black, brown, purple and a little of yellow. In between the leaves of the tree and the top of the earth has a somewhat checkerboard look with the bright primary color of yellow and secondary orange. The combination of the warm and cool colors give me a happy and comforting feel. In the piece of art that I chose there is a wide variety of shapes making the objects within the artwork. The bottom of the tree trunk in the piece has three small circles as well as some triangles. Behind the trunk is an earth with squares and triangles making it up. The earth as a whole is in the shape of a semicircle. The area between the tree and the earth is made up several small squares as well as few triangles. The collaboration of the unproportioned geometric shapes of triangles, squares, and circles as well as some free-form shapes make this piece look