Let’s paint some tomatoes!
Painting tomatoes is as easy as 1-2-3
It helps if you can look at some real tomatoes
Study the shapes and color variations, the stem ends and the highlights where the shapes catch the most light
Step 1. Load your brush. Use a fat round brush like a #8. You need red, orange, and yellow orange or yellow
Dip your brush in each color and then make a “C” shape. The colors will mix as you stroke
Step 2. Make a backwards “C ” leaving a opening at the top and bottom. Reload brush with more red or one of the lighter colors to vary the strokes as you fill in the tomato with 2 or 3 more “C”s
Can you see the color variations?
Step 3. When the tomato is dry add a stem. Use green and yellow and a smaller thin brush
Dip your brush in green, then yellow and make quick, short spikes, some curving out and some curving down. Reload brush as necessary
And Voila! You have painted a tomato!
The key to successful painting is don’t over work it!
Practice on scrap paper until you feel confident and use well placed strokes. Step back and look at it, and even better walk away for a while. When you return you will see where it might need one more touch or two, then leave it alone! Less is ultimately more~
The watercolor, “Cherry Tomatoes” [above] and Acrylic, “Summer Tomatoes in a Black and White Bowl” [below] are a little more complicated, but I used the same basic technique, building the shapes with layers of color
And if you don’t want to paint a tomato, you can always eat some! How about a Stacked Tomato Salad
I don’t know about you, but all of a sudden I am craving tomatoes!
Note: These simple tomatoes would look great painted on a watering can or bucket, napkins or dish towels~Just remember to mix a little textile medium into your acrylic paint to keep it soft for cloth. You can see more about that on Painting Sunflowers here
The next painting tutorial will be coming up soon, featuring pumpkins and witches!
Happy Creating!
The paintings are my originals
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