You know you're an artist when you go to the grocery store only to pickup some interesting produce to use for painting subjects! I spent some time yesterday going to thrift stores for still life subjects. I am always drawn to the pottery, but can never find things with texture so I went to the grocery!
I spied the radish bunches and even though it's not a vegetable I eat, I bought them. I soon remembered that it is impossible to mix fuschia with basic oil paint pigments. You need to buy the color in the tube. Knowing it is not a color I normally paint, I tried to come close with what I had. Didn't get very close with the color at all!
So I decided to get out my pastels which includes several sticks of fuschia! I projected the photograph of one of the radishes onto my flat screen tv. I prefer to work from life, but knew the foliage would soon wilt, so took pics and put the radishes in the frig. Process shots below:
Alcohol wash over first layer of hard pastels.
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| Final painting |
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