My First Professional Oil on Canvas Painting.

Happy Sunday Fellas!

I am sharing this with so much happiness tonight. Over a month ago, I posted some canvases I was preparing for myself to use for some professional painting attempts and fortunately for me, I just started, even though I start with fear and confusion, I still achieved what you can see above, and I am definitely going to try more and more out soon!

I made the painting using a black and white picture as my reference image and due to that, I had the choice to decide what my colour scheme would be and though it was quite tough but I eventually arrived at something warm at last.

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PROOFS OF OWNERSHIP!

I started by drawing my composition with Prussian blue (Oil Colour) and also created different values to show and guide me through my tonal graduations and value distributions.

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I added more dark values to show and understand where my depth actually resides, and I did separated my background from my foreground showing a sense of distance in my composition.

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I blocked the fruits using colours and shades from Orange to Red and Brown.

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After covering the major part of the composition with Orange, I got confused and didn't know what approach would appear nice again to I dived into the fruit's natural colour which is Green and I blocked it all different shades of Green while I blocked my background with dark values from Green, Prussian Blue, to Purple, and to Brown.

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I covered the composition again with shades from Orange to Red, and to Brown, using Lemon as the highlight and it came out not so mature.

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I went back to playing with a lot of Yellow and Orange in order to get some interesting transitions within my mid tones and my highlights.

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I did a lot trying to refine my colours here to bring out the fruits in a more vibrant manner and then I later worked on lighting up the surface on which the fruits are on to depict some light travels.

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Kindly share your thoughts as comments below, I'll be glad to read and reply them all. Thanks.

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THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!