"Pear"

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"Pear"

5 x 7 in

Oil on Canvas Panel

I wanted to let everyone know, I got great news the other day that I made it to the top 20 in the Daily Painters competition.  It's been a goal of mine to be a part of their group, in order for me to move onto the final round of voting I need to be in the top ten.  I need to have all the votes I can get in order for this to happen, if you wanna vote for me click here and just click on the 5 stars and thats it! Its that easy, I really appreciate all your votes. 

 

I started with a dry brush approach no medium were used in this painting.  I used little raw umber on the brush to draw on the canvas.  I stated a little of the shadow shapes to give me a blue print where  I need to put in the shadows.  Then I added all the darks in the painting, I used ivory black, burnt sienna, and cadmium red.  I am taking the shadows to an almost finish, the reason why I do not take it to a finish is because when I add the other tones the darks will be effected by the tones around it so I will have to go back into it and darken it or lighten it.

Then I start adding the dark mid tones, I used cadmium orange, yellow ochre, and burnt sienna.  Then I added the mid light tones and lighter tones, I used yellow ochre, titanium white, and a bit of cadmium yellow medium.

By this stage I have all the information I need in the pear and I start shifting the paint around where they need to be placed and darken the shadows and add the highlights.  I am bring everything to a finish and moving onto the next stage.  Then I added the mid and light tones in the base, I used burnt sienna, burnt umber, and titanium white.

I then added the background which was naples yellow, titanium white, and a bit of cerulean blue.  Once I put the background in I made sure to go around the edges of the base and pear and soften the edges.  Edges are really important in a painting, they can either make or break you'r painting so pay careful attention to your edges.  This is the finished painting, it took me an hour and a half to paint this one and I am really satisfied with it, hope you enjoyed it!