forbidden fruit

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 ^_^

bunny burrow

It’s been a while since my last post. As much as I want to escape reality and immerse myself in painting, certain household chores and people with authorities always get n the way. It took me twice the time to finish this painting.

I began with putting in as much pencil detail as I can with a mechanical pen. after this I started putting in the oil paint colors. starting with the rabbit on the right side, I played around with the colors burnt umber, titanium white, flesh and yellow ochre tones to get the result that are to my taste.

This is the first time I’ve painted two subjects in an oil painting. I thought it would feel more homely if there where two of them in the burrow since rabbits live in groups. I made the second rabbit (the female rabbit) darker to depict it still inside the burrow where as the other one (the male rabbit) was slightly out. Its like he’s protecting the female and their home.

I didn’t take as many pictures as I would have I liked while painting the background. I sold my camera and was in the market for an upgraded one. Just like the seaweeds in the lionfish painting I painted the grass clockwise starting from the top right. It took more hours for me to complete the background than to paint both rabbits. I had fun while painting and I’m glad its finished ^_^