Shelley Reed's Bold Use of Black and White

Reed is influenced by 17th century Dutch still life painters. She creates a modern still life paintings using black and white paint with complex compositions.
* Notice how she uses sharp and soft edges and contrast to create the illusion of depth. It looks like her work is painted with thin layers of paint, mostly wet-into-wet. Once you get the hang of mixing and applying values, this level of work can be great fun.
See more of her work here....

This gives you an idea of the size of her work.

Reed uses reference images like this for her work...