Earlier on we saw what painting all shadowed areas in Ultramarine Blue could do to simplify painting even a complex picture (Light and Shade again – March 7th 2019). This week we looked at another way into a painting by unifying the objects using a pale wash of Raw Sienna. We were using fruit, so Raw Sienna is a good choice. So much fruit has a yellow based hue, and it goes happily under other yellows, reds and blues, sometimes enhancing, sometimes creating secondary colours. Above all, it creates unity.
The Raw Sienna wash swept (or crawled, depending on confidence!) over the fruit excepting only the strong highlights . Next we washed in the appropriate colours of the given fruit, stopping short of those highlights, so that the previous wash acted a transition between the two washes. Shadows help the illusion of the third dimension, and you are now ready to titivate, or not, as your mood takes you. Simples!
Looks good enough to eat!
Absolutely delish!