Moving forward, even though I might be stagnant. I have 4 more 4-inch canvases, doing more fruits and vege's on these. I decided on another try at the radishes, some grapes (which I've been avoiding for months), a peach and a pear. The radishes were first, since I was familiar with this photograph. I had painted them way back, 2/24/19, #40. My cousin Justin ended up with that painting. I donated to a charity cancer auction, which I attend every spring. It went on the silent bidding table, and got one pity bid from my cousin Lori. I over-bid her to take the thing home, with my tail between my legs. When I brought it back to the table, she protested. That's when Justin piped up and said, "Oh wow, you painted that? I'll buy it!" I protested this as more excess pity, and he said that his Mom used to make him pick radishes in the garden as a kid and the painting brought back a memory. So I gave it to him, no pity money needed. At the time, it was my favored among favored paintings. Let's put the two side by side here, to show my complete and utter lack of progress:
Well, they're two different styles again. So let's not compare. The grapes turned out well though. In the beginning and middle of the grapes I was considering wiping it off, it just looked like a canvas with random circles on it. But after I added the tiny bits of stem and the shadowing and highlights, it came alive as grapes. My shadowing on the bottom sort of happened by accident, not sure how it ended up blue. Then I added some black directly under the bottom grapes, just kind of danced the flat edge of the brush around the bottom-most grapes. The plan was to blend it into the blue, but I skipped the blend, left it as is. Went to bed, so will have to do the peach and pear tomorrow.
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