Ok, I warned you this was coming. I painted a second painting of grapes. I don't know which one is better, and I'm not really going to try to figure it out. I like them both. This for me turned out to be as much an exercise in figuring out which paper I like better as much as it was painting grapes.
So I said in the last post that the other paper allowed me to play with the water a bit more. Well, sure enough, this paper, holding true to form, sucked up so much water so quickly I had quite a hard time with any kind of details. As I was putting the second wash on the leaves (and forming the veins) it was all I could do to keep the paper wet enough not to have terrible hard lines in it. I had to use a small brush to paint the small area where all the veins convers (on the big leaf), but before I could move away from that spot, there were hard edges. Happened on each of the veins I did. I just dind't have that problem with the other paper. I guess I could have tried to do something like cover the whole paper with a quick wash of water, but I'm always afraid that the undercoat of paint is going to run, and I really dind't want that.
Well, enough of me griping about my paper. I'll just have to adapt and move on. On a positive note, I think I did a good job with the different colors of purple and blue and red of the different grapes, and given that I only used Sap Green as my green in this painting, I am happy with the many shades I was able to make out of it.
Nuts!!! I just looked back and I have no details on the wooden post. Ah, well, it's not something that is hard to go back an put in. After I put them on, I'll update the picture.
Well, I hope you all enjoy this one too. I did really like painting it. I will admit however that I don't really wanna paint circles again for a while.
