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June 14, 2018 at 6:21 pm #457477
WFMartin
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Couldn’t think of any sort of “catchy”, or “ethereal” title for this one, so I’m simply titling it, “Tomatoes”!:lol: (Seems to fit, anyway.):lol:

This is an oil painting that I did on a 16″ x 20″ RayMar, acrylic-primed, Canvas Panel. As with most of my flower paintings, and still-life paintings, I began this with a very complete grisaille underpainting. Over that, I applied many glaze layers of color, to finally achieve the colors that I desired in the tomatoes.

As is usual with my work, absolutely no alkyd materials were depleted during the creation of this painting.:lol:

Oh, as I recall, I did apply an imprimatura with oil paint, and I may have used Buff Titanium from The Art Treehouse. I always need to have a “fresh” (but dry) layer of oil paint upon which to perform my charcoal transfer. I make a drawing on tracing paper, that is the exact size of the panel, and then I transfer it. The oil painted surface accepts the transfer of the charcoal beautifully.

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June 14, 2018 at 7:09 pm #640138
Ellis Ammons
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m r some nice glomaters right thur

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June 14, 2018 at 7:13 pm #640128
WFMartin
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m r some nice glomaters right thur

Hahahaha….Thank you! (I think.)

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June 14, 2018 at 7:31 pm #640134
Dcam
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Bill: You really captured the tomato skin. Very tactile. Nice composition and spot-on values.
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June 14, 2018 at 8:12 pm #640140
ptrkgmc
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Somehow I want a worm hole in that tomato, can you make some adjustments please?
June 14, 2018 at 8:40 pm #640132
Alan P. in OC
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I saw this immediately after I cut up 2 tomatoes:). Love the translucency effect with the light traveling through the tomato. Dig the colorful background too.

The right handle seems to be very bright, and the far-right tomato seems to be lit by it’s own side light. Regardless, it’s a beautiful painting.
June 14, 2018 at 11:22 pm #640143
PhuongMy
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It’s so real.

oil painting (from middle of April 2018)

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June 14, 2018 at 11:49 pm #640142
bhindi
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Superb reds and the background is really nice.
June 15, 2018 at 11:24 am #640127
ArtMarkie
Those reflections on the table are fantastic.
June 15, 2018 at 11:52 am #640137
Pinguino
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Excellent illustration of using hue shift, rather than adding white, for the more brightly lit parts of the tomatoes.

I know that you like to keep the palette small (as small as W+CMY, in some cases). May I ask, how did you do the shaded part of the foreground tomato? Also, for the reflection of window on its skin, did you scumble, or brush away glaze to show underlying color?

Culinary aside: Where I live, in early Autumn, it is possible to buy “dry farmed” tomatoes. Irrigation is halted as the tomato matures, producing a small but dense fruit, very sweet and flavorful, with a relatively thick skin. You’d never see translucency with those things! Can’t wait until late September, when they are in the markets.
June 15, 2018 at 5:33 pm #640129
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Excellent illustration of using hue shift, rather than adding white, for the more brightly lit parts of the tomatoes.

I actually did mix some white with some Hansa Yellow Deep (The Art Treehouse) for the lighter colors of the tomatoes.

I know that you like to keep the palette small (as small as W+CMY, in some cases). May I ask, how did you do the shaded part of the foreground tomato? Also, for the reflection of window on its skin, did you scumble, or brush away glaze to show underlying color?

You are correct. At any given time, my palette consists of only about 5 to 7 colors. At times, I include a couple of extra yellows, and two, or extra three reds.

I believe that I used two “Reds” (Anthraquinone Red, PR177, and Quinacridone Red, PR209), a Benzimidazolone Orange, PO36 (The Art Treehouse) , and Hansa Yellow Deep, for the tomatoes, in general. For the foreground tomato I may have neutralized, and darkened it with Ivory Black; I don’t remember exactly what I did. (Beauty of being a “color theorist” is that there are literally dozens of ways of mixing colors to achieve a match of the same, target color, once you realize that there are only 3 colors being contributed by every tube of paint you own.):D

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June 15, 2018 at 8:42 pm #640139
floblue
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Very nice. Makes me hungry just looking at them.
June 15, 2018 at 9:49 pm #640146
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I usually don’t care for still lives but this in incredible

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June 16, 2018 at 3:54 am #640135
Gigalot
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The light illumination is incredible!
June 16, 2018 at 4:25 am #640131
AllisonR
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I usually like your work Bill, but this doesn’t read right to my eyes. The bottom of the pot on the right side seems to be missing, one of the green stems (the one unattached to any tomato) seems to be jumping up in the air, and the lighting on the left side around the pot’s handle does not dissipate soft enough.

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