Delicious Nutritious Tomatoes

In a quick painting session over the weekend, I managed to bang out a few tomatoes.  These ones look so good you could pick them off the page and eat them.

I went with a lighter background rather than darker.  As I made up the story of the tomatoes in my mind, these were still on the vine in late summer.  The heat of August is bearing down on these tomatoes.  They are hanging just under a large group of leaves and waiting to be picked.

Mmm they look delicious and ready to pick off the vine and put on your dinner table.

Additionally, I made a video about painting these.  Check it out.

Practice Fruit

I had a little time on my hands during lunch, so I decided to sketch a few fruits.  Yes, red was the theme.  I gave myself two minutes a piece to paint each one.  I like the apple and the single cherry.  I really want o like the double cherry but the shadow i put on it kind of ruins it for me.  The tomato..... well, i think it went a little south.  lol.

Red, Ripe, Delicious

MMMMMMM, tomatoes.  Yesterdays were green, todays are nice an ripe.  Still working on making round objects round.  The tomatoes are a prefect test for me.  Not only are they round, but most tomatoes have some yellow, orange and red all mixed together.  So I get to see how well I can allow the paints to flow into one another. I think I did a fair job of this.  Please let me know what you think.

Tomatoes anyone?

I wanted to accent the green of the leaves and tomatoes with a nice blueish/purpleish color, but I think I got it too dark.  Well, it does really set off the green and make it pop off the page.

This one was really fun to paint.  It was a challenge to try to get all the greens side by side so that you could actually tell where one leaf or tomato stopped and the next started.  Im really happy with this.  I didn't need to line everything in black and you can see all the shapes and make everything out.

Hope you all enjoy this one.