This painting was the first in the series of three fruit paintings that I made. I used an analogous color scheme. To create lights and shadows on the bananas I used yellows and bright oranges to show light and a more raw umber and yellow green for the shadows. In the negative space I painted the upper half of the painting lighter than the bottom to create a sense of space so the bananas looked like they were resting on a surface rather than floating in space. The cast shadows, done in a low greenish brown chroma add to this illusion. On the darker areas of the bananas I diffused the edges into the shadows of the background, whereas I used hard edges for most of the highlight areas. Using a mixture of green and yellow and a little yellow orange I created planes in the bananas to form a sense of volume and weight to the objects.




The second painting in this series as shown above was of bananas and strawberries. For this painting I used a split complimentary color harmony using red, blue-green, and yellow-green. To create depth I created shadows on the objects to show how they overlapped eachother in the space. For the cast shadow I used a low chroma of blue green and lighter values of blue green on the bottom half of the negative space to show a sense of space. I wanted the focus to be on the strawberries in this painting so I made the banana and the background similar colors to force the banana to almost blend in making it a secondary part of the painting. I used brighter reds on strawberries closer in space and darker red for the strawberries farther away to make the painting look three dimensional.




The third painting in this series is of two apples in a complimentart cholor harmony. I used blue-green and red-orange to create this effect. The contrast of the red-orange on the apples and the blue-green in the negative space along with the dark cast shadows creates space in the painting. I created differnet planes of red-orage in the apples to create volume and visual weight, leaving the negative space very empty and light. I wanted the apples to stand out in the painting so I left most of the negative space in a light wash of blue-green and orange.