Tag / vegetables

by Leonie Andrews

Pumpkin

It’s not possible to ignore the sculptural shapes of the pumpkins we harvested the other day, so of course one has made it into my latest drawing.

Some late finds

I started this drawing off with a smear of Buff Titanium watercolour paint as the base for my shape and to pick up the highlight colour for the subsequent drawing.

Watercolour underpainting

The pencils came next. This fruit had such an indeterminate colour, leaning towards green, but with undeniable elements of grey and blue. I was concerned about overdoing the colours.

Sitting on my grandmother’s breadboard.

Using the breadboard as the base for the pumpkin allowed me to flip between the two parts of the drawing while thinking through which colours I would use next.

The final drawing

I could have pushed the colour a bit more, but I’m also happy that I stopped where I did.

by Leonie Andrews

And the vegetables keep coming!

Two more sketches today from my catalogue of garden vegetables. 

Firstly, what will probably be the last tomato from our garden this season. It’s what we think is an Italian Long Orange Sweet tomato – sadly the person who gave us the seed got the names mixed up, so we’ve had to make an educated guess about it’s real name.

The last tomato of the season?

My latest sketch is of this red onion. I forgot to tell my partner I was saving it  for sketching,  so he bought it inside and tore off the leaves that I had deliberately left on to make a contrast to the colour of the onion’s skin. Nobody’s fault but my own.

The red onion

I think I’ll have another go at the onion. I found it hard to get the shape as accurate as I wanted and I also struggled to capture the paper-iness of the skin.