30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 7 - Two Pears with Dots

Experimented a little with using strongly contrasting colours to make shading and texture with this one. The white of the polka dots was done with a sakura gel pen, but I think I might go over it with white paint as well. Next time I try some colourful pears I might try adding even more colours. It's hard to experiment with things that need a lot of layers to dry when you want to upload something every day.

30 Paintings in 30 Days - Day 6 - Half Pear

I'm finding that even redrawing the lineart that has been painted over it makes such a difference in how much the image pops. Also found out today what a difference it makes to paint an underpainting in a completely different colour to the one you want showing on top. That will be coming up in a couple of days. Todays pear was an experiment in painting a thicker layer rather than being so sparing, and I'm pretty happy. The colours aren't quite what I originally envisioned, but I quite like this one as it is.

I almost missed the deadline for submitting this one to the 30 in 30 linkup on Leslie Saeta's blog. It was sitting in my email ready to upload, but I didn't realise I hadn't submitted it. 

Tropical Pineapples

So pleased with my progress today. I've had some test prints of my papers made at Officeworks and they look great. Now I've opened up the Etsy shop at long last. Click the link to see Sixth Floor Studio on Etsy. Or you can check out my happy little widget in the sidebar.

Also, here are some happy pineapples. This purple version is one of the ones I printed today, and it looks delicious. The pineapples look so juicy and delicious in print. I'll definitely be using the yellow/green/purple colour scheme again in future.

Here is the first colour preview. To see all of the colours, go take a look in my Etsy shop.