Grapes, Again

Is watching grapes get painted about the same as watching paint dry on a fence?

Don’t answer that!

Outlining the grapes first seemed like the right approach.
I wanted to start filling them in before the outlines were finished, but restrained myself.
Sometimes it is easier to support my hand in a different position. Besides, to draw a circle, it is best to be on the inside of the circle.
I filled them in from top to bottom, and for the most part, I just ignored the photo. And grapes come in all sorts of shades of purple, violet, red-violet, greenish purple (gurple), so no matter what I do within those boundaries, it will be believable.
And kept rotating the canvas as I went.

When this is dryer, I will add brighter sunshine on the edges of some of the grapes. That contrast is what made me go for my camera when I saw these grapes.

And now it is dryer, and I am finished! Looks better right side up, yes?

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8 Comments

  1. I love your “gurple” grapes. Painting looks 3 dimensional. Amazing!

    • Welcome, The Other Melinda! Thank you for appreciating my gurple grapes. The friend I did this for was someone I met at Hartland in 5th grade – now that’s amazing!

  2. Jana,
    Loved the grapes!

    • Aw shucks, thank you, Jill! OF COURSE you like grapes – your grape business is how we met about 25 years ago!

  3. Love the grapes- beautiful!!!

    • Thank you, Sally! Grapes are magical in many ways – and I’ve been eating them like they are going out of style. 😎

  4. Quite simply Beautiful!

    • Thank you, Louise! It was surprisingly fun to paint all those little pinky-reddish-purple shapes.

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