Peppers, Bananas, Faces, and Paint Night

This is a still life with four different colours of bell peppers. I chose a blue table cloth to complement the orange pepper. My favourite peppers in this image are the orange and yellow ones. I gave this image to my mother and brother in Guelph.

I feel like bell peppers have some of the most "attitude" in the vegetable kingdom. They have those vibrant, diverse colours and grooves....

This painting replaced "Stirfry Ingredients" which I'd donated home. That one involved carrots, bell peppers, snow peas, onion, and cauliflower. I botched the cauliflower, but my family wouldn't take down the image until I offered them something better. "Bell Peppers" is simpler, but better

This is another still life. It's a bowl of fruit with an apple, a pear, a mango, and a bunch of bananas, The apple and mango should complement the bowl, but I find the bananas are what really draw attention. This was my first still-life that I did based on my own initiative. Previously, I'd done one during an art class I took in University.  This is another painting donated to home

My brother on the left, and myself on the right. My brother's is based on his Facebook profile picture at the time. I'd like to learn how to create a gloss effect, because I think that would have really improved how his glasses look. Right now, I kind of just drew the frames.

The orange background is supposed to compliment Duncan's blue shirt, and the green background, is supposed to compliment my reddish shirt. I actually did a painting with my mother having a yellow-purple contrast to complete the set, but she didn't like it, so I'm not including it here.

I look really sheepish in my picture, which wasn't the intention. My reference image was my profile picture when I worked as an Independent Facilitator. This painting was my second attempt at a profile painting. My first happened to be someone with a darker skin tone, and when I did myself, I thought that I just needed to do the same formula, but with more white paint. I was wrong, the colour blue needs to be omitted when painting someone of caucasian descent, and I ran out of white paint when I was  making it, so unfortunately, the initial attempt had me dark-skinned and wearing bright red lipstick. As I painted over it, my recreated image seemed to remember it's unfortunate origins, resulting in it's embarrassed expression.

I went to something called a Paint Night, where an instructor teaches an audience to recreate an image. I'm the image on the left, and my girlfriend is on the right. Y'all are going to commentate that my best painting is the one where someone gives me a reference image and tells me how to do it. Fair enough.

Everyone in the course drew a denser forest than in the reference. I don't know how they did it, but the reference image gave really thin trees that complimented the background.

Lee-Anne definitely has a more cosmic and awe-inspiring sky. I don't know what the "white accents" were supposed to be, but her's look a bit like Aurora Borealis, while mine look like smoke rising from the water. I think I had nice, smooth edges on my forest, and the reflection on my island looks nice.