This is for Rookie Painter May 2011 challenge, three red pears. It's oil on 8x10 canvas board.
This month we are back to painting another fruit I am allergic to - pears (I think they're pears from the picture). (ref photo) I changed the dimension of the original photo just a slight bit so that the three pears would look less perfectly aligned and less equal in size. In this exercise I tried to make the fruits look as real as possible, and kept the red and green contrast but made the red a bit deeper than the photo. My main colors were cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, cadmium orange, Winsor red deep, alizarin, madder, ultramarine violet, burnt umber, permanent green light, viridian and white.
Rebecca, I love those reflections on the pears. They do look so real! And changing the dimentions and the reds worked really well. Nice work! :)
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