Ornament 2

6x6 oil

Another ornament, painted in a view or the bottom end. It's not a kiwi fruit! :)

Just grapes

6x6 oil on hardboard

Yes it's just grapes. They are the black version and not the red ones from the other day.

Grapes fruit

8x10 oil on wood

Brought out the grapefruit and grapes.

Cupoflowers

6x6 oil on hardboard

Trying to be loose with the flower shapes, but i don't like this.

Indian blanket

6x6 oil on hardboard

Picked a few flowers for the next few paintings

Rhododendron

6x6 oil on hardboard

These are so tough to get the close value and hues to look like a rhododendron and i wasn't even close. I used a #6 brush on most but i think these are some of those patience and discipline subjects

Green cup and apple

6x6 oil on hardboard

Made a little boo boo with the right side of the cup. Dang it. It seemed hard to make this one lay down. Not sure what to do to make it proper. 

Fruit and blue vase

8x10 oil on wood

Can't get those folds to look proper.

Fruit and spoon

6x6 oil on hardboard

Plugging away.

Apple stack

6x6 oil on hardboard

Wanted to eat the big apple but i held off .

Apple folds #8

6x6 oil on hardboard

Still at it. I think this is closer to reality. The front drop of the cloth looks better.

Apple folds #7

6x6 oil on hardboard

Still working on the folds. I made these shadows lighter. That seemed to be some of the problem with the past few. The folds that are at the quarter up and really on a downward edge but still in the same light. I think that should have been dropped out of the direct light to show more downward drop of the cloth, and a stronger edge at the junction of the top plane and front.

Apple folds #5

This below. is reworked to see if i could make the folds more real

6x6 oil on hardboard

I'm thinking that the shadow is too dark. Also the crest of the right fold should be a halftone  and it's too sharp. I'll get them tomorrow.

Apple with folds

10x8 oil on hardboard

Working on painting folds. This seems way off. I would say i wasn't painting what i see. Dang!

Last Blossom

6x6 oil on hardboard

Last shot at this blossom. All the organics were done in palette knife. I wanted to see how the flowers would look abstracted in form, opposed to painting each petal like the last few flowers.

Imposter

6x6 oil on masonite    click photo

That's the pepper in with the bananas. I put the light close to the subject to bleach out a little bit. I used the #6 bristle for the whole painting and the #2 in a few spots. It looks like it needs stronger values. I didn't want to over do it. I need to work with a little medium to thin the paint and make it flow some what.  Maybe.

Orange on the bottom

6x6 oil on masonite

Put an orange on an upside down cup.  The front of the cup is white but the photo puts a bit too gray, but i didn't want to juice it in photoshop.

Mini Pumpkins

28x36  oil on gessoed mat

This is for this weeks Different strokes from different folks. You have to go to the bottom of Karins blog to see the ref photo I worked from. No there wasn't a cat in her photo, but I saw one.  click on photo to see more detail. It took an hour 45 .