Saturday, May 05, 2007

Purple Grapes


A friend told me she would like to have a picture of some purple grapes for her kitchen. I looked at a lot of pictures of purple grapes on the internet and didn't see anything that appealed to me. Finally I combined ideas from several different pictures to make the one I wanted.

When I first started painting, it was tole painting. I did a lot of mushrooms and fruit. Then I graduated to barns, ducks, and all the other things that one tends to paint when first starting. Now I pretty much stay away from a lot of that stuff. I really did so many, I burned out on them.

But I actually like the grape picture. I didn't know if I would enjoy the process, but it was fun taking different elements and putting them together into one picture.

3 comments:

Jo Castillo said...

Jeanne, This is beautiful. How big is it? Is it a watercolor? Nice, the friend should be very pleased.
Jo

"JeanneG" said...

Thanks Jo. It is Watercolor pencil and 11 x 14.

Joan said...

The grapes look great, but I love the leaves. You were able to get an almost translucent quality to them.