#65 THE FRUITS OF MY LABOR

For this post, I’m sharing recent fruit paintings of mine. These are all available oniStock.

My plum reference photo.

I went to a lot of trouble to come up with the composition for my apricots! I constructed clipboards with the separate elements and then made a lot of combinations to look at. I was my own art director!

For my passion fruit, the reference was terrible, but I pulled it off.

I was really happy with my tomato reference photos.

 

My “Pomegranate Tree” painting was significantly more complicated than the other isolated fruit against a white background. For this one, I’m sharing my photo reference, close-ups, and an “in progress look.”

Pomegranate Tree 8 x 10

My photo reference

One notable change that I made for this scene was the addition of pomegranate blossoms. Normally, they wouldn’t exist once the fruit was this large.

My painting in progress

My painting “in progress” depicts how I painted the darker background areas first. The “hero” pomegranate still has plastic frisket film over it. Below are close-ups of my painting.