Juicy for APR

This weeks APR theme is 

Juicy.

Now my  little mind went straight to 

juicy fruit and since I had tons of 

strawberries,

I decided to paint some of them.

Have you ever really looked at one of those suckers?

They are covered in little dots

and shadows and light bits and dark bits
and thus started my terrible art day.

You know the type,
no matter what you do
it is a mess, like some horrible little
gremlin has control of your hand
and moves it wherever you don't want it to go.

I didn't take a photo of the absolute mess I made,
thought I had but the camera must have felt sorry for me and it didn't take.

Here is where I gave up on watercolour and attacked it with
watercolour pencil.

 I had started doing lights and darks and then suddenly
my hand just went swoosh and the whole thing was red.
Try as I might, I couldn't get it to go darker.

Pencils in hand I started on the green bits
and then making the seedy bits with pencil.

 I'm using Albrecht Durer w/colour pencils and the white is
using my Inktense white pencil, it's nice and bright.

Starting to look better now.

 Here it is, done as far as I have time today,
might finish it some day.

You can see my white pen above the picture,
it came today, just in time to do the highlights.
It's super!

The painting looks better in real life.
I'm sure the camera is blonde as it takes terrible photos.

Can't be that I'm blonde, surely.

So there you have it,
juicy strawberries,
that were almost rotten strawberries!

I did get a beautiful and juicy coloured gift from my eldest daughter,

 just have a look at this.

 

It's huge and so bright, much brighter than the photo.

I could have a bath in it!

So there you have it,

my take on juicy.

Shame about the strawberries,

they are obviously for eating not painting!!

To see what other juicy things

have been created,

hop on over to Jenn's

Artist's Playroom.

It's jucilicious!!

If you would like to have your artwork 

shown around the world,

have a look at

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 It can't hurt to look can it.