'Fabulous Fruits'

Another excellent group attended this weeks three day workshop with students coming from Qatar and Denmark and just up the road! All worked hard and we tackled a lot of techniques. Shiny black currants, bilberries with bloom on them, compound fruits like blackberries, complex colour mixes like the plums, hairs, leaves and a final day on composition working with small bunches of Merlot grapes from our greenhouse.
The following are my demo pieces to give a flavour of the course.

Grape leaves, fronts and backs

Finally a plum using an underpainting to help layer the complex colour mix.

I finished this off after class. I think it’s quite cute!