I like loose painting style with fewer bold brush strokes and bright colors. Not too much details but still close enough to recognize what you are painting.
Lessons learned:
- Use a fairly large brush so you don’t get carried away with detail.
- Try to segment the pear/apple in your painting into large planes of separate color.
- Try to capture the individual value of each plane in correct relationship with the planes next to it. Keep squinting!
- Make sure every plane is a different color.
- You may soften edges between planes but do NOT paint large blends.
- Start with your darkest dark and lightest light.
- Time yourself, for example, 1o minutes to finish a pear/apple, stop when time’s up!
Below are a few apples painted by some artists with a loose style. I am working towards to their direction. Hopefully in the future my paintings will have a similar style.