Homework: 2 paintings

It feels like my entire weekend was spent painting, which is a pretty cool thing. Our assignment was to do two paintings of uni-colored fruit on a neutral background. For one, value changes or shading could only be done using black and white along with the local color of the fruit and what it sat on. For the next one, we were do the same thing, except shade with the complementary hue of the fruit, in my case, being violet, since I used lemons.

The first one felt surprisingly successful. I wasn't real happy with the composition I choose, and it was a rough start, but i liked the result.



The next one was a pain in the butt. Violet and yellow do not like each other and this made for a streaky mess. The result, after several layers of paint, worked out.



Side by side, they look very similar, but the one on the right looks warmer and has a bit more dimension than the painting that only used black and white.



Fascinating. *lifts one eyebrow ala Spock....*