It didn't take me long to paint these apples, but Jeff did a demonstration on one of them to encourage me to use more paint and give more form to the apple (see pics below). I adjusted his brush strokes a bit later on to make his apple more cohesive with the rest of my painting.
The bricks had to be corrected a few times to get the proper temperature and to make sure they look straight and like they're moving towards the same vanishing point.
The stripes were the biggest challenge to this piece and they took me a long time since I had to paint them three or four times before I got them right (see images and captions below). The cloth in the shadow was too cool on my first attempt and it took me a couple more tries before I got the values and temperature correct on each stripe. But it was worth it. I learned A LOT and I'm happy with the final product.
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| final painting |
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| my apple before Jeff's demo |
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| the same apple after Jeff repainted it |
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| Jeff's apple in better light |
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| I took this pic before I adjusted the temperature of of the fabric. It's too cool, which is noticeable in top left corner of the cloth. Also, the stripes weren't dark enough as they recede into the shadows. Especially notice the yellow, which was incorrectly lighter than the white fabric next to it. And the blue stripes in the darkest fold (in front of the apples) are too bright. |
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| This is the same painting as above, shown again to compare with the previous version. The yellow stripes were tricky because I had to mix an orange-brown color to make them look dark enough at the back of the fabric. |
