"Apples From the Store"
Still Life Painting, unframed
Oil on hardboard, 8"x10"
©2012 Diana Moses Botkin
I picked this month's subject for my Challenge group. I've been wanting to try painting some materials like the plastic produce bag so the monthly Challenge was a good motivator. And it was indeed a challenge.
Portraying something which I haven't previously tried painting usually is. The first thing I had to figure out was how to actually arrange a plastic bag to make it interesting in the set-up. I tried a number of bag poses, with various objects inside and settled on this idea.
It was harder to paint the diaphanous material of the bag than I'd thought it would be. The lack of solid form, the translucency of the sheer plastic at differing depths, the wrinkles and turns were all very interesting and challenging. And I did have fun with this one, although it was hard work.
And I love what everyone else did. You can see all the group's paintings at my blog post.
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