fruit life drawin

desiree had never used oil paints before so we thought it would be fun to do a lil class thing and we had some fruit my mum gave me. I decided to go thru all the steps of underpainting just to give a good starting off point to possibly stray from and get used to how oil paints work. 

Steps we went thru:

DAY ONE

1: wash layer. staining the paper with a mix of burnt sienna and turps and then drawing the design out with a darker tone and wiping away the highlights.

2. Gray layer. Using burnt sienna and white to create different tones and filling the painting out with detail to create underpainting.

Could have took the underpainting further, but since this was just a learning curve/ experiment i was happy with it.

DAY TWO.

3. colour. Ive never got to this step as the only paintings Ive done using this particular underpainting method is the binder one that i did only in a gray layer and the archangel michael which is still in the gray layer as i cant work out what to do with the face...

DAY 3
added more details. tried to do the glass bowl but decided to just block it out as i couldnt be bothered with it oops.

Was going to finish it a bit more as the orange looks a bit floaty. but im also thinking of just calling it done and doing more still life experiments.