Out with the blackberries, in with the cherries. Now mostly done. I need to let it dry, as paint smearing has become a problem. It needs a couple of cherry stems, highlights in the cherries, and a bunch of little detail work. Overall, I’m pretty happy with it.
Palette for cherries: base tone is pyrol ruby with the chroma knocked down with ivory black and burnt umber. I then worked into it with mixtures of flake white, pyrol ruby, viridian, and cadmium red medium.
The ceramic on the bowl is mostly Robert Doak’s wonderful Fra Angelico blue.
Beautiful work. It has a lovely stillness to it.
Thanks, Jenny. I like your work, too.