Romance - A Work in Progress

There were many items set out for our theme of 'Romance" in today's Still life at KAGS.

I chose a small section of what was there and decided to go with the Valentine's Day card, the strawberries and the wine bottle and crystal glasses.














I will post this painting at a later date once more of it has been completed.

Strawberries

The strawberries finally dried enough that I could paint them (see posting on 06 May 11). I brushed all the strawberries with Napthol red first leaving the calyx area unpainted.

With most acrylic paint I could have painted the entire strawberry and let it dry within 15 minutes, but with the Golden open acrylic paint it stays wet for at least 4 hours and I wanted to finish the painting today.

Using Hansa yellow I blended it into the highlight areas of the strawberries. I blended Dioxadine purple into the shadowed side of the strawberries and onto the table top for the cast shadows.

The calyx was painted first with green gold as a base colour and then sap green was used for blending in the mid tones and shadows.

Sap green was also painted into the darkest areas of the cast shadow.

Strawberries is an original 8" x 10” framed acrylic and is available for $195.00.

Thank you for coming to look at my artwork and I hope you will return often.

Strawberries - A Work in Progress

Today I was at the Golden Acrylic Workshop at KAGS.

Having taken this workshop last year (Study in Sienna posted on 21 September 10 and my posting on 27 September of Red Rubber Ball) and thoroughly enjoying it I wanted to try it again.

This time instead of doing a pear (see Single Pear posted on 17 September 10) using the Golden Heavy Body Gel I decided to do a grouping of strawberries instead.

It wasn't dry enough to paint the strawberries so I painted in the background and table top before taking it home.

I will post this painting once I have completed the strawberries.

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