Concentration #4 - Jars of Apples ( 1 1 x 1 4)Alright to sum up the first series of food being canned I decided to paint a couple of jars filled with the types of apple products my dad cans. The three types of apples he cans are apple slices, apple sauce, and apple butter. When I first got my braces on the only food I ate for the following week was my Dad's applesauce. Surprisingly I never got tired of eating it, and every time I got my braces tightened I was eating tons of apple sauce until the pain went away. I'm also the kind of girl that isn't too big on cream cheese so I normally eat my bagels with just butter, but when my Dad started making apple butter that was all that I put on my bagels. Just smelling the apple butter makes feel like I am back a Sky Top Orchard with my family. Ok, back to the reason I am writing this post, the painting. The three jars of apples actually have different colors so I thought it was best to have the lighter ones on the outside and the dark brown apple butter in the center. When looking at my reference picture I noticed that two of the jars were regular mouth ones, and the apple slice jar was a widemouth. I think the composition could have looked better if the widemouth jar was in the middle, but the apple butter jar was so much bigger I thought it needed to go in the center Process/ReflectionsI was really nervous about starting this piece since I had never drawn glass before let alone paint glass. Mrs. Rossi suggested that I start with a dark color for the background and then paint the brightest highlights and a few others, and then paint around them with the colors of the content of the jars. I practiced first on a piece of canvas paper and acrylic. Once I was happy with the method I went straight to painting my canvas with a very dark purple. I'm not really a fan of acrylic painting so I decided to paint this in oils (wish me good luck!). Once I had the highlights painted in I added a few grays into the lids and the bottoms of the jars. Leaving those to dry a bit I painted in the apples, and by know I should be apple to paint apples with my eyes closed. There was a little bit of a struggle with painting the actual apples inside the jar with starting to lose the highlights in the piece, not having the right shade of yellow due to dark background, and even too strong of highlights. I think I have mentioned this in an earlier post, but I wanted my pieces to match as far as the background goes. I kept the blue-green counters I had and the white tiling in the back. At first I didn't want to do white tile since I didn't want to use so much white paint. When I was done painting a blue background it looked like my jars were flying in the sky. After giving the piece some time to dry I came back and painted a very light gray over the blue and made the background look like the kitchen tile. I really like how this piece turned out and I like the colors of the composition. If there was anything I would change it would be the kitchen-counter I think in my other pieces its a bit more blue, and I was also push the shadows a bit more in some places.
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Concentration #3 - Crockpot (8x10)After peeling the apples my dad will jar some of them as slices, but then he moves on to making some into apple sauce. The apple sauce he makes is mostly made for eating, although some is used to make apple butter. Apple butter was the first thing my Dad and I made after we went apple picking for the first time. The ingredients of apple butter are pretty simples, cooked apples (apple sauce), cinnamon, and brown sugar. I wanted to find a way to show apple butter being made other than just drawing the simple crockpot. Since the ingredients are simple enough I thought I should draw them falling into the crockpot. I love the aroma of the apples and cinnamon sugar that fills the house every time my dad cans apple butter. Just thinking about it brings back many fond memories of all the times my family has gone apple picking. Reflections |
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