Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Porky - a redone painting

22x15 acrylic and ink over a failed watercolor of watermelons that just did not work. This pig art is featured in Chris Unwin's book The Artistic Touch 5. I took some of the lemon shapes in the watermelon fruit still life and made pig rears as you can see in the background, and also did negative painting where needed. The hardest part was his large head as I wanted some of the watermelon to show yet needed basically one color in the shape. When we raised pigs and hogs on the farm they were often fed watermelons. COPYRIGHT Kay Smith
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1 comment:

Jo Castillo said...

You are so clever. I would never have found a pig in a watermelon. Fun and good painting!

May 5, 2021 at 12:06 PM

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