More ways to paint a tomato. This is tomato #5. One more to go. I bought a bunch of fabric napkins of different patterns and solid colors that I am using under my still life arrangements. The stripes were fun. I will use them more in the future. The different fabrics add a challenge and interest. I love demitasse cups! No it isn't a giant tomato!
Tomato #4. I like all the colors in the shadow of this one.
I like the way this one turned out. My class said they didn't like the background color as much as Tomato 2. You can't please everyone!
I decided that I'm going to paint this tomato 6 times. This is painting #2 for the tomato.
Cholula Hot Sauce! This is a fun bottle to paint. I had problems taking the photo though. I couldn't seem to get the glare off of the painting. It seemed like it took as long to take the photo as it did to do the painting. The background looks grainy in the photo but not in person. Red is fun to paint.
The thing I like best about this is the contrast between the light blue cup and the intense red background.
I wasn't posting for a while because I had a show at Art on the Boulevard, opening on April 4, and a Gorge Artists Open Studio Sale at my house/studio April 13-14, and I got the flu that was going around here like wildfire! Sorry - I'm back on track now though.
A little landscape of oak trees around here, the Columbia Gorge area. I was trying out the water mixable oil paints with this little painting. They seem just like regular oil paints. I like the Holbein and Grumbacher Max. You need to use one of their water soluble linseed oils with them though.
Red and green on an orange surface was really fun to paint. The shadow on orange was visually interesting to me. I am all about shadow exploration right now. The edges of the shadows, the color of the shadows, warm/cool tones and values are all fascinating challenges.
Painting translucent objects is a challenge. The light shining through an object can be deceiving. It still produces a shadow even though light comes through it.
