Lemon light

Oil on Board 6*6

I tried some natural light today to see if I could get a softer more natural look. I did take it downstairs a few times to look seperate it from my painting space and I was able to tweak a few places to make the image stronger.
I also have to be careful not to outline too much otherwise it will look like a cartoon cutout.

Lime 'n' Lemon

Oil on Board 6*8

I tried this lime on green, I painted an undercoat of orange first then wiped it dry to warm the painting up.

I also have to find a better light set up as this image is a little greyer than the original, the green on the background is a bit more vibrant and the camera can't seem to pick it up.

Three Lemons

Oil on Board 8*10

I ran out of little boards and decided to paint on a bigger board and what a difference it makes there is more to fill. The photo appears a little more purple than it is so it's a little bluer.

Garlic No 1.

Oil on Board 5.5 * 5.5

I tried to paint some garlic today and I didn't want to paint on a white background I wanted to put some atmosphere in. and depth.

I cut this board down as the composition had the garlic falling off the board, so this helped by chopping it. I also saw what I had missed when I took the photo and was able to tweak the painting. I like it more now.

When I had photographed this image I had to do it several times, as I kept getting this problem called flashing in the wall painting trade, if the light hit the painting at an angle you can see the brush strokes very clearly, I must have photographed this image about eight times till I was satisfied with it.

Pomegranate No.2

I wanted to paint the Pomegranate again, I thought I would try a dark background to see if I could pull it off,
I was trying to get it to glow as well. Did I pull it off?

Pomegranate No.1

This Pomegranate has been sitting around for about a week and a half so it was about time I painted it, I tried doing this grey
background and it went o.k.
I'm having a go at more backgrounds to sit the still life I want to try different
angles and see what happens.

Jug and Happy Tomato

Here is my first painting of the year and I had trouble setting up I wiped this painting about 5-6 times till I had at least a satisfactory painting out of it.

I tried a different way of painting too, I didn't draw the painting first to get all my angles and such like down, I just blocked the painting in. It worked so I will try this technique again.

Also after I had painted and asked one of the children what did they think to the painting they said that the tomato had a happy face.

mmm I didn't see that.