Friday, October 22, 2010

Pomegranates



I wanted to paint my pomegranate before I ate it. (Hmmm, maybe I should paint it when it's cracked open too)! I grabbed my general journal and used a drawing paper page which worked okay but not great. I'd pre-prepped the page when I was with my granddaughters and thought it would make a good background for the fruit. The biggest problem was bleedthrough to the other side as you can see on the other pre-prepped page (showing my granddaughter that the cheap paints I had in a palette someone had gifted me were better than the Grumbacher ones she was using which is why I promptly ordered her professional watercolors when I got home. Never expect children to do well with or to love doing art if they don't have good tools. It's really worth the expense at this level in my opinion!) so I am happy with my page. The drawing paper took a very long time to dry which is unusual and then I remembered we are in the middle of a nice, large rainstorm :) and so I happily waited for some of the paint to dry but should have waited till it all did. Patience is a virtue and I am working on it! By the way, since I didn't have patience or correct pre-planning, I lost my highlight so I used some gouache that was sitting in another palette nearby to rectify that problem.

I WILL figure out a page that will go with the bleedthrough or cover it up. It's now a challenge page!

15 comments:

  1. That came out excellent. I thought it was the actual pomegranate sitting on top of the paper.

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  2. What fun and such an adventure!!

    I say paint the slip pomegranates on the flip side! Great job, Timaree!

    p.s. agree wholeheartedly about tools, whether for children or adults!

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  3. The very first watercolor workshop I took, the artist came over, took my brush to fix something I'd done... and he HATED my brushes... he said no wonder you can't paint with brushes like this, spend some money and buy 2 good brushes... so for a while I was able to blame my brushes, now I have the most expensive brushes money can buy... and I'm still not that great... but I'm having fun.. I agree that good paints should be used, for the historical value if nothing else... what if the kid becomes wildly famous, these first paintings will be worth MILLIONS some day...

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  4. My sister emigrated to AUstralia in 1996 and since then her kids have called our mum their Pommegranny :)

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  5. Wow - I'm amazed at how you have painted this pomegranate! The pomegranate looks so real to me that I want to reach out and pick it up off the page. The color and lighting is wonderful. I also like your lively lettering on the page. Nice combination!

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  6. This is great! I love how you incorporated the text, and the splatters...just super. Thanks for your comments on my blog, too...my son has yet to shove anything gross in his pocket. Mostly rocks and moss, lol! A pb and j crust was kind of smooshed in there once:)

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  7. Amazing! It looks like a photograph.

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  8. You did a fantastic job! The best thing about art is that it is never perfect. The challenge keeps us going.
    Wonderful stuff!

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  9. Hey I am sending you something- so quick, if you have changed address let me know!!!!

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  10. holy cow, that looks like a real pomegranate! COOL! and the lettering - oh, i'm such a sucker for lettering! love it!

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  11. I wish I could do this well with watercolors. Your work is beautiful!

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  12. What an astonishingly lovely and three-dimensional-looking pomegranate that is! I love them as a sketching subject too.

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  13. The page looks great, with the fun lettering and colors - and the pomegranate looks amazingly realistic!
    I love your post below, too, the Autumn fun - wonderful colors and beautiful paintings! I think my favorite is the corn, the colors are fabulous.

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  14. Your watercolor is great! Good clear colors and beautifully shaded. Glad to see your work again :)

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  15. Great job with the gouache highlight! I love it for that - my big tube of white is getting used up fast. I agree with you about good tools for kids! Saves a lot of frustration for them. This page with the pomegranate is really great. I love the letters and the way everything looks on the page. Almost every time I do a journal page, I get the bleed through or rather the "stamping effect" on the other pages :-) But really -- it's red on green - complements -- I say leave it and make it another journal page background. Just forget it was a "mistake". Beautiful work, Timaree!

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