SIMPLE GRAPE STUDY
by Penny Nangle

Colors: Baby Blue, Pansy Purple, Dark Navy Blue
How do we make a round object look round? With three values of color...
There is a grape painted in black also to show that It doesn't matter what color you use, the results are the same, when you have in your painting:
# 1 Shadow
# 2 Highlight
# 3 Reflected Light
in combination to make an object look round.
First Picture - First Step: Side load your # 6 brush with Baby Blue starting from the top of your grape shape move towards the bottom in a Fat half circle. (If you are doing oblong grapes make your stroke less fat in the middle.)
First Picture - Second Step: Side load your # 6 with Pansy Purple. Now, turn your piece upside down, starting from the top of your grape shape move towards the bottom in a Fat half circle. You now should have a half blue and half purple grape. Soften strokes..
Second Picture - First Step Use your wipe out tool, and wipe away a nice highlight out of the blue painted side of your grape, in a half moon shape. Now wipe out a very strong small highlight right in the middle of your grape. Soften your wiped out area by using a clean brush and pulling the paint away from the highlighted area lightly.
Third Picture: Last step Side load your # 4 brush with Pansy Purple, and Navy Blue and place this color right next to the small wiped out circle in the middle of your grape. Lay this combination of color around this strongest highlight, and wipe out another small highlight from this darkest value placed there.

Remember to place your darkest value color under the grape that is on top. Then you will do great.

Leaves: Paint in a grape leaf shape. Now Place an X with a straight line right down the middle ( see picture)at the top of your leaf with a liner brush, in any light color.
Push up, with your wipe out tool, the uneven shapes in between the X mark. This helps me to remember how to shape a grape leaf when looking straight on..
Fire 017
Repeat the same procedure as above in the next two fires.

Hope this study encourages you to start painting grapes real soon...
China Hugs, Penny In Indy

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