garlic and peppers

Detail of a small acrylic on canvas of the garlic, this time less detailed and with more thickly applied paint, rather than layers upon layers of wash and line. This sort of painting is very meditative, especially after having processed and digested the same set up in previous work. It's a chance to paint directly and intuitively make the marks that build up into form.  The background is actually a very deep maroon, but that doesn't show in this photo.

A start on some red and green peppers. Soup or ratatouille will be in our near future. (Especially if I get some eggplants started today.)

Garlic Bulbs

Garlic painting finished - see below:

After completing a detailed pencil drawing of garlic bulbs, I decided to revisit the same set-up with a light wash over pencil. I couldn't achieve the "bulbousness" and writhing roots, and the feeling of the cloves straining against the papery thin skin of the bulb using the delicate wash. 

I reworked the drawing with a charcoal pencil and then moved on to acrylic washes with some opaque paint touching the details.

Below is a detail of the  garlic bulb with roots.