Hello, everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog. I hope all of you are doing well. I apologize for not posting anything the last two Sundays. It’s just that I had a lot of work to do. Anyways, today I am going to show you another one of my paintings. It is a poster color painting of a pomegranate, which had been done by me when I was in the ninth grade. I hope you like it:
The Painting:
This painting, as you can see, consists of a whole pomegranate and a piece of another one, cut in way that its seeds can be easily seen. To paint this, I have used poster red, crimson red, white, black, yellow ochre, chrome yellow, lemon yellow, and a very little bit of orange. The shadow, as usual, is one of the most important factors in this kind of art. It just makes your subject feel rooted and real. In the picture above, you can actually see a kind of a halo around the pomegranate and the rest of the page is comparatively darker. Now, this is not real. It is just the effect of light and is present only in the photograph.
Now, this painting is very different from most of my other poster-colors. One, I have not painted any background for it. Why? I was too lazy. The thing is, for all the paintings which I have made as a part of my coursework for ninth and tenth grades, I have had to adhere to a certain set of parameters. It was because I was practicing these for my examinations, and there are a few rules set the by examination board. For example, you must paint the background and foreground in a still-life painting. But in the case of a nature-painting, you may choose whether or not you want to paint them; it usually depended upon the subject of your painting.
The second thing that is different, is that I have used very bright colors for the pomegranate. There has not been much use of yellow ochre or black. Why? I have no idea. One more thing I would like to draw attention to are the seeds of the pomegranate. You will notice that I have directly applied white paint in order to give them highlight. Now, I know that I have talked a lot about mixing a little dull colors while painting, but that is not the case always. As you might have often noticed, wet objects tend to reflect more light than dry ones. Because pomegranate seeds have water in them, I have directly applied white paint for their highlights.
So, that is it for today, everyone. I hope you liked the painting and found some of the tips useful. If you liked this post, I would recommend you to check out some of my other paintings in the art and stories section. Do follow my blog if you haven’t already. Stay tuned for more such reviews. Until then, au revoir!