Themed Exhibition called.... YUM!

 

Water colour works in the process of being finished for the  'Yum' exhibition... here I would like to share the developing  of Fruits of The Earth; the techniques of working with watercolour starts by using a combination of layering on the colour glazes-  some areas will be worked using the wet paint on wet paper technique whilst other areas wet paint is applied onto dry paper ...here I use Arches paper - I find it enables me to get the result I am trying to achieve ... 

Based on Bottecille's Birth of Venus
I focus on her head as a portraiture

Using photographs -various fruits  such as Kiwi
in order to get patterns and proportions right

Initial drawings for the work...

                                                 photo black and white to show tones

 adding washes of water colour

 building up glazes..........

 enlarging image ................

  close up of areas ..

 working detail of face........

 adding stronger line to define

Each month the Freudian Sheep Gallery  holds a themed based 'open to members' Exhibition, each member submits art work (a minimum of three times per year)
This months exhibition is based on aspects of food hence theme Yum....Curators Ian and Eleanor run the Gallery
I initially was working on still life - a bowl of cherries but the growing  idea to incorporate and appropriate works by the masters took over the results I am working on now are three water colour works 1. titled YUM, based on the   Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.... 2 titled The Morello Cherrie, based on Girl with The Pearl Earring by Vermeer and 3 titled Fruits of The Earth based on Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli...............