I continued to slug out paint on this new study of eleven royal gala apples. I stopped looking at apples, and instead just blocked in color, and it quickly came together and took shape. This is suddenly a very exciting painting, with many bold and lively colors in contrast to so many of the fairly muted edge transitions and reflections. I wasn’t expecting to be almost finished with this piece after only two sessions, but everything is fairly solid and I’m more interested in capturing movement than just rendering details. I’ll tighten up a few edges and clean up a few colors in the morning and have a final look.
