"Pepper"

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"Pepper"

6 x 8 in

Oil on Belgium Linen Panel

I started this one with a dry brush, and essentially I paint all these small paintings in this manner.  I use no mediums for these quick paintings, which has been interesting so far.

I love the beginning process of these paintings because I am not concerned with blending it too perfection, I just paint freely and try not going to tight.  

After I get it to a mid level I move onto the stem of the pepper.  At this stage I am introducing the local colors and modeling the bigger forms.

I then filled in the background and the base, again just keeping it loose to get the local color and model the big forms.

This is the final painting, I took the base further as well as the pepper.  I had a lot of fun rendering this painting, I learned a lot and how to keep things in a certain stage and take things further without looking too over modeled.