Hi, hope you all had a great Christmas. Things are getting back to normal and I should be back painting from tomorrow. I have managed to proceed with the free commission won recently by a collector on my email list.
Here is the first layer.
and I have completed the second layer today. I'll leave this to dry before finishing the painting. I have to glaze the bowl, add the grape stems and a few final adjustments here and there. This is the first time I have painted in this way, all my paintings so far have been alla prima.
14x10 stretched canvas
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I like this one, the apple and grapes really work well together.
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I spent hours on this painting. It went through a number of different stages and was a great learning experience. It would have taken much less time but I tried a few things out before finishing it. Some paintings just offer themsealves to be played with and this was one of those.
Pretty sketchy this one and shows developing technique regards thick and thin. I am also starting to paint a wash of colour before laying on thicker paint, before I mainly indicated the darks with burnt umber. I did not use burnt umber on this painting but raw umber, which I liked.
