Here is my latest still life (Autumn Still Life #2) painting with its unraveling development.

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Autumn Still Life #2
16" x 20"
Oil on canvas

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Greetings fellow Steemians!,

As I do realize that it has been quite some time now since I last posted an intensive process revealing blog post on my work, now I thought it would be good time to share my latest painting and discuss its lengthy development.

I admit that this painting took waaaayy longer than planned. I felt that I was completely absorbed in its completion and was dead set on finishing it, so here it goes!

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(Here is my setup in real life)

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Using some standard craft paper, as usual I began with an initial block in drawing with charcoal in which eventually would be transferred onto the painting surface and sealed with ink.

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Now that I sealed in the transfer drawing with ink on the blank white canvas surface, I then started to mass in the shadows with thinned burnt umber.

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Using mixtures of venetian red, ultramarine blue and titanium white, I then mixed several value strings ranging from the red to blue, and then mixing increasing piles of lighter value each from those separate piles. I used these strings to lay in the initial pass of the background.

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I then proceeded the same way towards the ground plane and foreground.

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I found laying in the pumpkin to be especially difficult. Not only was I simultaneously refining the drawing, but I also was attempting to accurately capture its chroma. This object I found to have taken up most of the time, not necessarily because of its size in relation to the rest of the picture.

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The onion and the corn in the background I decided to work on next. Logically, I chose to save refining the corn til the end of the painting.

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The second onion behind the bowl and the bowl itself was next.

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Now going back to the pumpkin, progressively from right to left I then started the second pass. Some sections of the painting were particularly “thirsty” so some sections were painted even a third time before moving on. Once sections “decided” to refrain from sinking in, I then could accurately judge colors and values adjacent to what was previously painted.

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Now that I am near the end of the painting, I then finished up the foreground’s edges and decided to rework the cast shadows.

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..aaannd it's finished!

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Please feel free to let me know what you think?

Thanks for reading Everyone!

-James Hansen

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