From the Artist: I happened to to have a couple of pineapples handy so I set them up and painted for this project. It's another glazing attempt. I used yellow and blue to get the color of the leaves, though I did use green to put the dark lines on the pineapples.
I put a thin base coat of yellow on the pineapples and then glazed varying amounts of yellow ocher to darken them. There was no sketch on the paper, I just used the paint brush. This exercise was a glazing exercise for me. I was more concerned how that went than the shapes.
From the Painting Guide: Pineapples are a good choice of fruit for a still life because they take some time to ripen! You've built up beautiful greens with a range of tones in the leaves, though the leaves are longer and on the lower pineapple seem floppier than on the pineapples I'm familiar with. But that's not relevant, what is is how you've built the color up through glazing your yellow and blue. I think you should be pleased with what you've achieved here.
To take it to the next stage, I'd start looking at the shadows within the pineapple leaves, particularly at the bases of the leaves, and working at ensuring that all your initial yellow glazes are converted with blue into green. At present there are a few places where the leaves are still very strongly yellow and, to me, this really catches the eye and distracts.
The skin on the body of the pineapple has nice orange-yellows, and in terms of using glazing to achieve the deep, rich color I associate with pineapple, I'd say you're spot-on. What I like less is the green used to demarcate the segments, which doesn't generate a feeling of depth, of the yellow sections of skin standing out above them.
In terms of changing this, I would start by taking each section of skin individually, and adding a tiny touch of blue (i.e. a really light glaze) on each on the shadow side and over the green divide to work on building a feeling of 3D form. (Dealing with each of these sections individually is where you start to doubt your choice of fruit...!)
Finally, I'd also use more blue in the shadow, rather than the purple. Possibly even make it quite a dark blue, so that the glowing orange-yellows in the pineapple have something to stand out from.
I put a thin base coat of yellow on the pineapples and then glazed varying amounts of yellow ocher to darken them. There was no sketch on the paper, I just used the paint brush. This exercise was a glazing exercise for me. I was more concerned how that went than the shapes.
From the Painting Guide: Pineapples are a good choice of fruit for a still life because they take some time to ripen! You've built up beautiful greens with a range of tones in the leaves, though the leaves are longer and on the lower pineapple seem floppier than on the pineapples I'm familiar with. But that's not relevant, what is is how you've built the color up through glazing your yellow and blue. I think you should be pleased with what you've achieved here.
To take it to the next stage, I'd start looking at the shadows within the pineapple leaves, particularly at the bases of the leaves, and working at ensuring that all your initial yellow glazes are converted with blue into green. At present there are a few places where the leaves are still very strongly yellow and, to me, this really catches the eye and distracts.
The skin on the body of the pineapple has nice orange-yellows, and in terms of using glazing to achieve the deep, rich color I associate with pineapple, I'd say you're spot-on. What I like less is the green used to demarcate the segments, which doesn't generate a feeling of depth, of the yellow sections of skin standing out above them.
In terms of changing this, I would start by taking each section of skin individually, and adding a tiny touch of blue (i.e. a really light glaze) on each on the shadow side and over the green divide to work on building a feeling of 3D form. (Dealing with each of these sections individually is where you start to doubt your choice of fruit...!)
Finally, I'd also use more blue in the shadow, rather than the purple. Possibly even make it quite a dark blue, so that the glowing orange-yellows in the pineapple have something to stand out from.