I finished the commission of eleven royal gala apples today, just before the entire sky grew dark and overcast. I’ve been experimenting with jacking up my paint with drying agents ever since the formulas for some of the colors have changed. My window of opportunity to work and rework different areas has become somewhat limited, but it’s nice to have the paint setting up a bit from one session to the next. The challenge of this piece was to have it fit in a room of neutral colors with a muted bluish green carpet, and the complimentary range of muted oranges and greyed out reds will create a nice counterpoint to the existing colors of the space.
Somehow I wound up mixing giant amounts of paint for this study, so to wrap up my session I carved out a small quick study to sum up what I’ve learned in the past three days.
