In the exercise I am painting in quick succession the same still life, simple arrangement of fruit. In this exercise I was initially concerned with the tonal values up as the still life was directly under the light source the tonal contrast where not that exciting, some shadow at the base of the fruit where it sat on the table surface. I experiment with the colours in the shadow, sometimes using paynes grey the main element and in other sketches switching to blue and or purple.
Though I did not use a pencil to define the object before painting I found myself drawing the shapes out first with a brush before applying any washes in sketch number 4 I purposely avoided doing this though did at a few details after the main patches of colour had been put down.
Most of the paintings show signs of the wet in wet approach, possibly due to the nature the exercise (quick sketches). I particularly like the way the colours of the objects have bled into the table (number 3)
A problem with all of the sketches is depth of colour, still need to gauge how much lighter the colour will appear once it has dried.
Composition wise I like number 4 and there are also some interesting wet in wet patterns in his sketch.
I think the sketches could have been improve by taking more time to consider the lighting and having an obvious focal point highlighted darker tones and or more detail.
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