Last week in class we were each assigned a “live” pear to paint. The lesson was on figuring out light and shadow, (along with color, of course). We had about an hour for this little project. I will play around with the result, but here is the original. (Note that the background is pretty flat — that is because we didn’t have table edges; i might paint those in later.)
i spent a bit of time on the last class assignment — the one where we were learning about using a palette knife. I scraped off some of the “corn” and tried to replace it with a bit more background. Then, days later, (after it had dried, sort of) i added more “stalks”. I am probably better off thinking of them as kind of a hybrid corn, at least for now. Also added a layer to the grass at the bottom of the painting; tried a mid-blue glaze on the gray barn roof (but it didn’t “take” too well — will have to repeat: this is common – glazes almost always multi-layered. ) The thing about the roof being blue, however, is that i want to be careful that it’s not close to sky colors.
LJ and NJ 