Still life painting of fruit

22/10/14 - In this session we were asked to draw and paint a still life of fruit. Materials I used were charcoal, a 2H pencil, normal paper, cartridge paper, acrylic paints and hog hair brushes. in this session I used a combination of the techniques I had looked at in other sessions.Techniques used in this session were, timed sketching, quick charcoal sketching, painting, perspective, positive and negative space and proportion. the formal elements I looked at were shape and form, tone, and colour.

first of all we did a quick charcoal drawing of the fruit, which enabled us to identify different tones. Then we did a painting of the fruit, concentrating on different aspects like colour, shape, form and perspective.

Areas of my work that I think worked well are drawing the fruit to scale and using proportion. areas of my work that I think I need to work on are painting accurately and blending the colours better. To extend my skills I have looked at some other artists still life paintings.

To help extend my skills I looked at some other paintings of fruit to help me identify where some of my strengths and weaknesses are. I particularly liked this painting of a strawberry because it has really good use of tone and colour and looks realistic. The shapes and proportions are also accurate do the strawberry looks very effective.