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Painting in gouache of a sliced apple: Here I was looking for human personalities and characteristics in inanimate objects.
Above a sketch of my shoe using H, HB, 8B and 4B pencils. I also used black charcoal pencil and a blur stick. I'm happy with this, although I think the angle I drew from makes the shoe look a little unusual at the toe.
Above and below: A raspberry and a pepper painted with acrylic paint.
A glass of water with reflected light. I did this using pencils, black charcoal, white charcoal and a blur stick.
Still life of some flowers using fineliner and hatching.
A lemon painted using oil pastels with blending and shading. I really like it set against the black background of the negative space and the way I managed to created texture in its skin, and the light source on its skin.
Above: I painted this in acrylic paint with shading in coloured pencil with a little cross hatching.I like the slight bruising on the apple but I'm not happy with the shadows.
My painting of a pink lady apple using soft pastels. I tried to emulate the art of artist Sangita Phadke who is known as the 'master pastelist' by the Pastel Society of America. I used four soft pastels and added a water droplet to enhance its photo realistic style. It was drawn using negative space.
I sketched the tomatoes above first, then used watercolour paint and finished with a black pen. I did this in the style of illustrator, Amy Holliday.
This fruit bowl above is painted with acrylic paints.
Above - fruit sketched and then coloured with colour pencils.
Pumpkins above: oil pastel on an A2 board. I used the dark blue shadows to create depth which helped show the volume of the pumpkins. I tried to emulate the impressionism of Russian artist, George Chertanov.
Above is a fruit bowl painted with oil pastels on mixed media paper. I like the black background which was similar to the style of classic artists Caravaggio and Galizia. I found the oil pastels to be too messy and therefore couldn't capture the detail I would have liked.
Above on the left is a pencil drawing of a mushroom. I wasn't happy with the drawing of the inside of the mushroom, so I painted a digital version which I think made it look more realistic.
A project called SKIN DEEP - it's what's on the inside that matters. The idea that nothing is what it seems and we shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I really enjoyed finding human characteristics in everyday fruit and vegetables and slightly exaggerating this in different styles and giving them emotion. The colours were chosen according to a colour mood chart to help influence the viewer of the piece. Each piece was created differently (The avocado: digital; the tomato: coloured pencils; the pomegranate: oil pastels; the red pepper:acrylic and the pumpkin: gouache.)
Value: Form in light studies: Creating tone.
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