Hot Blueberry Muffins

Mmmmm, just like grandma use to make.  Delicious blueberry muffins.  These happen to be sitting on the table, but you can't have them they are mine.

I started out to paint something just a little different.  You see lot of painting of trees, and flower, and pets and people, but how many do you see of muffins?  I know, I know, your gonna say its just a still life like a bowl of fruit, or something, but is it really?  I really like painting things that not everyone else paints.  From the moment I saw this picture,  I knew I was going to paint it.  I didn't really know how I was going to do it, but I knew I was going to.

What I did was look at what color the muffin tops were, and develop my color palette from there.  The tops were gold, and brown and a really warm earthy yellow.  I decided on transparent orange oxide, yellow ochre, raw umber and van dyke brown.  The brown crusty parts are really just orange oxide.  and the in between parts are mostly yellow ochre.  Their is an under layer of raw umber and yellow ochre.  The muffin cup is mostly raw umber. I needed to make it similar to the top, but different enough that you could tell it was paper.  I tied it all together with a light yellow background and a few blueberries in the foreground.

If you want a more detailed description, you can watch the video below.  Thanks for taking the time to view it, I hope you like it, I had a blast painting it.

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.

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.