365 Paintings in 365 Days #55

5x7 inches.
Oil on Board.

Grapes

Leraning Points:

1. how to not make all of the grapes look the same? hmmmmm. not easy. I tried to vary the size and shape and color of each one.

( I need to work on grapes, I think they are about as hard as strawberries, so I will be doing more of them)

2. Lighter background (again) trying to get a handle on this one. The background color is Naples Yellow with a little bit of white, and then I went over it lightly with Currelean Blue and white.

3. Shadows: I lightened the shadow at the end ( it is hard to tell from the photograph) The grapes are lighter closer to the light source and darker further away.

4. To get the "glow" of the grapes I did an underpainting in cadmium red.

5. Too get a color balance and "pull it all together" I mimicked the grape colors in the stem, and also added a little green highlights in the grapes.

6. Atmosphere and blending...soft and hard edges. The grapes are blended into the background around the edges, as well as some of the stems.

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Comment by mario alberto velazquez on February 27, 2014 at 15:32: Really beautiful painting !

Comment by Jon Main on February 27, 2014 at 8:59: Love the red 'rims' - reminds me of Wayne Thiebaud!

Comment by Pandalana Williams on February 27, 2014 at 7:36: I sketched in the grapes (roughly) with a light red pencil ( I use a watercolor pencil in case I need to make changes) Then I spray it with a final fixative. Then I blocked in the entire shape first with cadmium red. I could still see faint lines of the drawing beneath to follow, plus I had the still life set to paint from. It is not exactly like my still life because I ate some of the grapes so some were missing lol...I painted one of them back in and just left the others out because I liked the shape of the "mass". I then put various greys I had mixed over it, and the darks are Prussian Blue mixed with a little cadmium orange which made a wonderful dark purple-ish color. The pinkish highlights are Indian Red and white.

Comment by Sharon Repple on February 27, 2014 at 5:20: Love the underpainting with cad red

Comment by Michael J. Severin on February 27, 2014 at 5:14: Real good job on the grapes!! How did you begin the grapes ..did you mass the entire shape in first, or did you paint each grape?