my first finished painting for the year 2011. yehay! i heard that in some countries raccoons are considered to be pests cause they break into homes and garbages and do all sorts of damage. in the philippines we don't have raccoons running around so we view them as sly and cute critters.
after putting down all the guide details i need. i usually do the color test on the actual painting because i don't like painting the same thing twice. this way the subject becomes more interesting because there will be a lot of colors on the board during this experiment period. the beauty with oils as a medium is that you can never go wrong. if you want to change color just let the part dry and put a new coat of paint on top.
this is my first time to draw apples. i guess i could also pass for a still life fruits painter because friends have commented on how life like the apples are.
painting the leaves one by one by one was really a patience tester. although i had a lot of fun playing around with yellow, green and blue hues. i was careful not to make the leaves in the foreground look lumped together. i wanted them to stand out individually. it took four times longer to paint the foreground leaves than to paint the raccoon and branches combined.
the branches were the last to be painted cause my palette was filled with so many leaf colors. finally finished ^_^
