#51 3-9-19 Pear Make-Over

That "Letter D" painting has been sitting here, haunting me, saying "When are you going to get some gesso overtop of me, I need a make-over!"  So, being the lazy person that I am....oops, meant to say creative person.....sometimes it's a fine line....I decided to skip the gesso and just paint over top.  But that meant I couldn't do my "chalk carbon copy" process.  I was forced to freehand the subject, Lord have mercy.  So, only easy subjects were considered and given the rectangular canvas, I decided on a pear.  The underpainting was saturated color, so it was tricky to not let it come through the pear.  It seems titanium white has the most opaque pigment and is willing to obscure anything below it so I mixed that into most of it.  I let the underpainting colors come through a bit on the background, once again using the favored Lt. Graphite Hobby Lobby (Master's Touch) paint.  My scratched off signature initials are bright red, oh my!

Just like getting your long hair cut short, it's fun to see the weird stages of transformation: