Concentration #5 - Strawberry Picking (8x10)With my concentration, I wanted to tell the "story" of the art of canning through 3 series of 4 pieces while highlighting important parts of the canning process of each fruit. With this being piece number 5 it would make sense that I am moving on from apples (me not drawing apples?!, crazy right.) The next fruit I decided to draw was strawberries, they also happened to be the second thing my dad ever caned (apples being the first). I didn't want all of my pieces for each series to look the same so I had a rough time coming up with the composition for this piece. I wanted to do a basket of strawberries, but I had done a bucket of apples for the other series. After quite a few more sketches I had settled on drawing the strawberries in a bucket that was sitting in between strawberry plants in a picking patch. I didn't have one solid reference so I pieced together a couple of photos to make the composition I wanted. ReflectionI really like how the piece turned out, but there was a major struggle to get there. I had planned on laying down the first few layers of colors with pan watercolors and then taking the watercolor pencils to add texture. Which the plan was going all fine and dandy till I decided to use masking fluid so I could paint the background. The point of masking fluid is to cover areas of the paper that you don't want to get wet or paint on so that you can be looser when painting. I decided to put masking fluid on top of all of the strawberries and the plants so I make a more cohesive background. Little did I know that masking fluid and watercolor pencil don't go together. If you look through the progress pictures that after I did the background the plants and berries look way lighter than they were before. I had to go in and redo all the watercolor pencil texture. I really like the texture of the piece, I wish that I had some more reds so I could add more values to the strawberries.
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