It’s Christmas Eve today and I’ve been baking goodies, illustrating and painting all morning. I love the shape of a pear and while in school, painting or drawing fruit and vegetable stills have always been my favorite—I have my teacher and friend, Brenda to thank for that. Here’s a few studies I did before completing the final illustrations:
After doing many studies and testing out techniques with a pencil, a permanent marker and watered down gouache (I just used art supplies I already had) I decided to start the finals. I drew a bartlett, bosc and anjou pear to frame and hang up as a triptych in my bedroom. One thing I love about this style of illustration and painting is the looseness, inconsistencies and imperfections that result. Check them out:
These were really fun to create—I’ll have to experiment with other fruits and vegetables for another triptych.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!
Nice! Those look awesome! Anjou’s are my favourite.
Thanks, Rachel! Yes – I agree with you anjou pears are so good—I love the red ones!
Awesome! I really like the studies, too… the sketchy quality makes me think of a field notebook that a botanist might keep.
Hi Lauren—that’s a good observation—they do remind me of plant illustrations that a botanist might keep. I love the sketchy, imperfect quality of quick illustrations.
Hmmm…that’s a good idea—now I need to start drawing stuff like this and keeping it in a book to have as a reference.
What lively and fun drawings! What a great fruit to describe us too, the perfect ‘pear’
Keep on baking and Merry Christmas!