Basket case

Didn’t fancy class last night. Still tired from the long haul back from Nashville but dragged myself to class with a basket of fruit under my weary arm.

Having missed a week, I was behind the rest of the students who had all worked up some nice pieces and there’s nothing worse than being on catch up.

The first part of the exercise was to really understand the composition’s tonal values by generating quick pencil sketches.

Ta Dah!

Eat your heart out Cézanne

Once I was happy with the composition and the light and shade areas, I proceeded with a watercolour painting and completely messed it up. Come back Cézanne....

I will work into this more and try to pull out the forms of the fruit more but the basket is a bitch frankly and I wish I had just stuck the flippin’ fruit on a plate.