Our own apple trees were already spilling fruit from a hugely plentiful summer and as we picked and crushed and bottled, I thought about how much the crop changes throughout the year and the progression of gorgeous colours as it all matures and ripens and....drops.
I don't know why, but I liked the idea of colour spilling over edges when I started. Maybe that freshness got a bit lost.
But again I started with texture. I built up some Liquitex Matte Gel, but it took a lot of layers before it got anything like yummy enough with a few peaks and troughs. I was intending to draw with Inktense pencils over the top and then swirl around some water, to let it settle in valleys, so I did need the odd valley! It also required a few layers of gesso over the top to make it interesting enough.
This was my first attempt.
Nice textures, but it did all look a bit bare. I suddenly remembered my trusty stack of paper napkins and wondered about introducing some background colour (I collaged on just the top layer of 3- or 4-ply napkins, pasted on with acrylic medium, which you can then work over with other paints, pencils etc).
I wanted to echo the 'through the seasons' look of the apples.
This was what I passed on to the next person.
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