Painting fruit

In this session on the 22nd of October we were asked to draw and paint a still life of a composition of fruit. Formal elements that were used include; shape and colour. Materials I used during this session were a 2H pencil, Acrylic paint, hog hair brushes, cartridge paper and also a thinner paper when we did our timed sketches at the start of the session. Techniques that I used during this session were timed sketches, perspective, scale and painting. At the starts of the lesson we were asked to draw 3 timed sketches; 3 minutes, 1 minute and 30 seconds, of the fruit. We made sure that these 3 drawings were kept to the top half of the page as further into the session we needed the bottom half of the paper for something else. We later on found out that we were using charcoal again but this time just black charcoal, and this is why we had to keep the bottom half of the paper clear as this is where we had planned to draw it. We didn't get to use a drawing pencil to map out the shape as we were only allowed to use the charcoal. We used the charcoal to show the darker areas within the composition which was hard as I wasn't allowed to use a pencil before I felt like I was drawing free-hand and this is why the shape of my fruit isn't very accurate as it could be.

Areas of my work that I think worked well would be the use of the charcoal showing the darker areas. Since my last time using charcoal I think I have definitely improved and think the drawing is fairly accurate as I hadn't used a pencil before hand, I had used charcoal first.
Areas of my work that I think needs improving would be the shape of the fruit and the accuracy of them. I would need to practise more at home or in my free's drawing with only charcoal and practising different shapes and still life compositions.
to extend my skills I will practise more with charcoal and using it to draw more still life compositions and other objects to push me to improve and and get used to using this material
Also in this session on the 22nd of October we were then asked to draw the still life again and this time use the acrylic paints. I chose to use the paper landscape because it allowed me to draw the fruit more accurately and I had more space. After drawing the fruit accurately we went on to choosing our paints and carefully mixing them to the right shade we needed for each particular fruit. This was a very time consuming process as the colour had to be accurate and had to be the same shade as the fruit we were painting to make it look realistic.

As you can see from the picture of my work above I had only managed to finish my apple to how i wanted it. I never managed to finish any of the other fruit as I ran out of time in the session. This would be one of my improvements for next time as I would make sure that I manage my time correctly making sure that I have enough time to finish my work in the lesson. Another improvement would be the accuracy of my painting, I will definitely be working on my painting skills as I'm new to it and this is why the painting on my work isn't at a very high standard. Parts of my work that worked well would be the shape and accuracy of the fruit I had drawn. Also the scale and size of my drawing, I think I used the space on my page wisely and appropriately and the size of my drawing is the right size as you can see what they are meant to be and there isn't any unnecessary space left on the page. To extend my skills I will practise at home using other still life objects to improve my technique of using acrylic paints.