Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Tomatoes x three..


I spent around 2 hours drawing these in my sketch book. My sketch book, by the way, is 12 inches x 8 inches. c&c away.. :-)

7 comments:

  1. Woo Hoo! ....JJ can paint tomatoes that look like tomatoes!.....I love the sunlight streaming in ......

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  2. JJ, I do like these tomatoes. They have real character.

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  3. Thank you ladies, very much. I did enjoy drawing them, I am looking at them now. I sprayed the paper with pastel fixative to stop the graphite smearing and stood the book up on my desk overnight. I still like them this morning. I have 7 values too. Wow. :-D

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  4. Well JJ, you can draw tomats, can you paint one I wonder?? snicker, snort, giggle...

    I do like the compostition tho and best yet, they don;t resemble cherries...lmao....

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  5. Smart Asssssssss........ :-D I will paint them this week. I will try yours too, but I have to be honest and say I really don't like your reference photos, they just don't light my fire. I will see what I can do. I can see why ej has been playing around ;-)

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  6. See JJ...the more we practice, the better we get!!!
    LOOK at ALL the values you've got happening here!!! Well done!!!!!!!!! ;)

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  7. I thought that I had commented on these...I think I must be losing the plot!!
    You have some great tonal values here JJ! Looks great!

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