For this exercise I focused on complementary colours green and red and initial decided on a combination of a pears and strawberries:
Was not entirely happy with the scale of the objects, should have spent more time on working out the composition, so I abandon this painting and started a second...
Slightly happier with this one but didn't feel it met the aim of the exercise... don't immediately get a sense of the colour choices made... background colours too distracting perhaps.
Next attempt, given up on pears and strawberries (yes I know I can't blame the subject matter) I went with apples and a red stripped tea towel
Yes this is better, drawing of the objects not as fussed over and the red of the tea towel certainly helps to highlight the French Golden Delicious apples in the foreground.
Impatient as ever I did not allow the first washes of the tea towel stripes to dry completely before applying shadows at the base of the apples... not a good move waited a little longer before highlighting some of the creases in the tea towel with a blue wash.
My favourite painting to come out of the exercise was the colour study...
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