At the same time that I was painting my glazed still life, I also painted this copy of André Derain's Big Ben. André Derain was one of the leaders of the fauvism movement back in the early 1900's. The fauvists expressed themselves by using often bright and unusual colors in their paintings.This movement was fairly small and short lived, but it did produce some cool art.
One of the interesting things about fauve art is that, although the colors are strange, the values stay pretty realistic. For example, take Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe) by Henri Matisse. There are interesting green areas all over the woman's face, and blue splotches in her hair. If, however, we convert the picture to gray-scale, it looks somewhat normal. If you can ignore the fact that you know the shading on her face is green. :P