Wax Bloom

That didn’t take long at all – fruit’s a lot easier than faces, it turns out

Pears | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 5.5″

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The center and right pears need additional work, but nearly there. The next time I post an update of this one it should be the finished drawing.

Pears | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 6.5″

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A bit more progress from last night and this morning:

Pears | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 6.5″

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I thought it would be fun to participate in this month’s virtual sketch date, so here’s the beginnings of my piece based on the reference image.

Pears | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 6.5″

I also second Katherine Tyrrell’s suggestion in the comment thread (no permalinks for comments, blogspot?) to create a Flickr group for this.

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FINALLY!

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

For Sale: $350.00 

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Mmm … delicious, mouthwatering, melts-in-your-mouth purple corn. 

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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Punched up the darks a bit more and started on the second corn cob…I’m hoping this one will be done in another session or two.

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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Feeling marginally better about this one now…

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 12 x 9″ 

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I’m starting to get really burnt out on this one and had to force myself to get it to this point over lunch. (With apologies for the cruddy iPhone photo).

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Pastelbord | 12 x 9″

The next time I do a still life I have to be sure to not have so many repetitive details. The basket, the corn…its really just not that much fun. I feel like I’ve been drawing the same damned thing for days now.

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Slowly chipping away at the basket…

Autumn Still Life | Colored Pencil on Colourfix Paper | 9 x 12 

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