New Version of Red Apples painted some time ago includes some new techniques

New version of Red Apples and White Wloth has a nice wet watercolour appearance. Matted on black, it has a very contemporary look that would fit in many modern kitchens, yet it's classsic enough to look great with many different decor styles.

You can learn the techniques I used to paint this from my upcoming Ebook

Painting Watercolours Digitally

Red Apples and White Cloth New Version - 21/10/2010 Joan A Hamilton

This delicious looking and vibrant painting is a new version of a digital watercolour I did in March 2009 called Purple Jug and Apples Two. I always liked the way the apples turned out in that one, but wasn't satisfied with the jug and parts of the cloth.

Just cropping the jug off left the composition unbalanced.
Added a new background with watercolour airbrush and simple water.
The tip is that I wet a fine water brush by changing the Category to Watercolour from Airbrush
Used gradient colours to do the wet glaze on one layer and the digital watercolour glaze on another.
Add the same paper texture to the new part of the painting
Wet it too, so it fits in with the wet look of the apples.
Add a little blue WC airbrush glaze to the shadows on the white cloth
and to the tabletop outside the apples shadows.
Dropped layers to canvas
Dried DWC and WC layer
Lifted Canvas to WC layer and wet entire WC layer very slightly because all parts have already been wet this way, but need a little more all over to make it cohesive.