I usually sketch without an end result in mind but last night I started this thinking I would do a simple drawing of a bowl of fruit….then I thought I’d limit my palette to just just Paynes Grey and Raw Sienna. Well, none of that really came to be and I just doodled away adding details and more colours – that’s my favourite way to sketch.
Wed-8-Sep-2021
If you’ve never eaten plantain, they are a type of banana, often cooked when still green, though you can eat them just like bananas when they ripen off. This bunch is still green except for one solitary one on the end which got eaten this morning. Why the seller decided to put a label on each piece I don’t know…maybe because people are likely to buy only one at a time?
Mon-30-Aug-2021
I’ve drawn papayas several times – I love the colour of them. This one had a slight green tinge as it was not quite ripe when I drew it. When they are perfectly ripe we chop them up and add a dribble of calamansi juice…delicious.
Mon-23-Aug-2021
This sketch was drawn when I was really tired and couldn’t think of anything to draw. When I feel like that in the evening, I just draw any old thing that happens to be in front of me and in this case it was fruit on our coffee table.
Sat-14-Aug-2021
Last week my wife came back from a trip with 5 kilos of dragon fruit and we have been eating them ever since. These ones have deep pink flesh and when you eat a lot of them…well it’s like eating a lot of beetroot! I had to tweak the colour of this sketch after scanning it, because our scanner will not scan that kind of pink (it comes out red)…but the fruit really are this colour.
Tue-3-Aug-2021
We have our niece house sitting for us in the coming week, so we went out and bought lots of fruit (plus unhealthy snacks) for her. I was tempted to eat some of this but instead I just sketched it.
Tue-20-July-2021
On our way back from our trip out of town on Sunday we bought loads of avocados and Indian mangos from a roadside stall. Fruit bought out in the provinces is always so much cheaper…so usually we go a bit mad and buy far too much as you can see from this sketch.
Mon-12-July-2021
I forgot to follow the #WorldWatercolorMonth prompt of “reflection” yesterday…I’m not sure if I will follow the one today either! Anyway that doesn’t matter and for me it doesn’t really matter what I sketch each day…it’s just the act of sketching that I enjoy.
Thu-1-July-2021
This is my first sketch in a newly made sketchbook – this time I am trying out the very expensive Hahnemühle Britannia 300 gsm hot pressed paper. So far I am finding it a bit tricky – it’s not as immediately absorbent as the paper I used last, so the paint washes around the surface for a while. It’s going to take a while to get used to that. Anyway we bought some Guimaras mangoes from a friend on Thursday, so to avoid having to think too hard, I chose them as my subject to sketch.
Thu-20-May-2021
The title of this is from a Nick Cave song from an album (No More Shall We Part) that I have been listening to rather obsessively recently. Somehow it seemed appropriate seeing how much I have been sketching in the house since the pandemic started. I’ve sketched fruit on our coffee table many times but I still see something different each time.
Tue-11-May-2021
