Another Pumpkin Painting

October  --- Fall colors and Pumpkins


My husband and I discovered Braehead Farm in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  Their Fall Festival is going on right now and the pumpkin patches are perfect for picking. .  It is a great place for children and adults.  Their homemade pies are so good that we ate the one (strawberry and rhubarb) we bought before I could even do a painting of it.  I did do a painting of the pumpkin patch closest to the entrance. 

 

 

10 x 10 - Pumpkin Patch at Braehead Farm

Photos as a reference

Use of Photos to Design Your Painting

Thinking back to my workshop with Nancy Tankersley who emphasized the use photos to design the painting rather than making the painting look like the photo,  I made a lot of changes to this photo for the painting.  The two main ways it has been changed is moving the pumpkins around and changing the light.  I don't like to have the shadows in front with backlighting. 

So here is the photo and the final painting...  (a lot of cropping going on - thank goodness for the zoom feature on my ipad)

 

 

I might do a bigger painting of this because I like the way the purple and orange look together.