The painting that I've been doing today. (19/9/2024)

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Today I finished my painting of this bowl of fruit. (See above.) I'd already completed most of it. I'd really only got to finish the bananas on the right. (Can you tell that they are supposed to be bananas?) All I really had to do was paint in the brown parts on the bananas, parts of which are shadow and parts of which ate just the bananas going brown. So I painted that in. But the top banana is actually supposed to be two bananas and the brown mark in the middle is supposed to be inbetween the two bananas. I don't know if you can really tell that that is the case. When I'd finished that I set it aside to dry. I had a lot of raw sienna paint left over (which was the colour I'd used on the bananas) and I didn't want to waste it, so I went and got another canvas and painted that all over with the raw sienna. Then I went and had a break. When the raw sienna on the canvas was dry, I decided to do a bit of an experiment with it. I got some white paint and I painted in a horizon line. I added a bit of a hill on the right. Then I got some cerulean blue and painted in the sky letting some of the raw sienna undercolour show through. Then I got some ultramarine blue and I painted in the sea. Now I'm leaving it to dry. I don't know what else I'm going to do with it. I might add a boat or a wave to it, I don't know yet. What are you lot getting up to today? I hope you are all well. Have a nice day.