Our planned outing on Friday to Labarrier Park will have to wait. At 7:30am, the rain was starting to fall and we made the decision to paint a still life indoors. Angela had purchased some particularly lovely shaped pears with a strong red color on them. She nicely set them up on her kitchen counter.
My experience with these pears started the same way as the onions we had painted; not well! I made the smart decision to wipe off the board and lo and behold, I had a beautiful soft underpainting of the still life. I then took a flat bristle brush and dabbed the paint on; using the side of the brush. I thought this worked particularly well for blending the colors in a way that also suggested the freckling of the pear. After finishing this painting, I became attracted by the spotlight itself that she used to light our still life. I chose to do a really fast oil sketch of our still life scene taking in the light and a suggestion of the dining room behind. This painting took me no more than 30 minutes and other than the fact that the light itself is out of scale to the scene, I was pleased with this effort. Because the light was what interested me in the first place, I was not bothered by the fact that I got it too large in relation to the rest of the scene.
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| Pear Still Life |
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| Interior Oil Sketch - Pear Still Life Setup |
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