A Month of Apples and Pears

Apples and Pears In Many Ways

Wow!

We spent a month painting apples and pears.

I hope you learned as much as I did.

I've painted apples before, but I don't remember ever painting a pear. I know, what artist hasn't painted a pear.

Me I guess.

This is a time lapse video of me painting a blue Ball jar as part of the still life we are learning about this month.

We'll learn about painting glass another time, but this month the focus is on painting apples and pears.

In this video you will learn how to mix paint to create the shadow under and around the jar.  We might loose it under the apples, but that's OK.

In the above video you'll learn how to paint an apple and two pears in different orientations.  The apple goes off the edge which is called engaging the edge and one of the pears is laying down which adds interest and gives a different perspective.

We will completely loose the shadow of the jar we added, but at least now you know how to do it.

I take a few minutes to explain how I got to this point.

This was a really fun painting to do.

This short video wraps up the full month of art we did all about drawing and painting pears and apples.

We will take a subject each month and explore it for the whole month, drawing and painting that topic in several different ways.  I suggest beginning artists work in a similar method to increase their skills in any particular topic.  

You are seldom great at any one genre or subject from the get go, so it's important to spend some time and understand your mistakes, what made them mistakes and how to correct them.

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