Concentration #9 - Basket of Peaches (11x14)The last fruit that I decided to put in my concentration was peaches. I was going to do green beans but I wanted to keep the color scheme for all the fruits together to make the concentration more cohesive. Peaches is one of my favorite fruits to eat in the summer so it's always nice when we have a few jars of sliced peaches in our pantry that I can eat. There are many memories attached to peaches and most of them with my family, I even lost my first tooth eating a peach. I didn't have a picture of these peaches taken before I had this idea so I had to go and get peaches so I could take a reference photo. The only problem is peaches aren't in season when I needed to take this picture. Keeping that in mind I didn't buy many peaches because I didn't want them to go to waste. Unfortunately, when I put the peaches in the basket, I noticed I didn't have enough to fill the basket the way I wanted. I ended up adding apples and potatoes to raise the peaches up so I could arrange them the way I wanted in the basket. After doing that annoying acrylic piece I was so excited to go back to oil painting. I think the style I have when painting with oils will help create the depth/shadows of the peaches sitting in the basket. ReflectionOh man, I didn't realize how much I missed oil painting. I loved painting the peaches so much, I really liked the colors I used for the peaches (I didn't even use any orange paint!). Even with the orange wash underneath I thought the peaches stood out. After painting the peaches I added a thin layer of brown/purple-white paint to where the basket is. I did this since the wash was a bit on the darker side and I had trouble getting the shade of brown I wanted for the basket. For the background I wanted to make sure the piece still matched the rest of my concentration since it wasn't sitting on the kitchen counter like all my other pieces. To keep the piece cohesive I painted the background the tealish color with swirls to give some movement to the piece as well. When it came to the basket I really struggled. I'm not sure what it is, but I always seem to struggle with browns (especially when it comes to painting). At first the brown was too light and all the woven pieces blended into each other and you could barely tell they were woven. I asked Mrs. Rossi for some suggestions and she told me to go darker than I thought it should be and stick to straight up vandyke brown and burnt sienna and then add a few highlights after the paint is dry. I think that going really dark helped the piece come together. I love the colors and composition of the piece, but if I had to change something it would be the basket, I would try to add more detail into the basket.
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