A Lovely Autumn Harvest

by Conni Schaftenaar

Title

A Lovely Autumn Harvest

Artist

Conni Schaftenaar

Medium

Painting - Watercolor & Ink On Tissue Paper

Description

A lovely autumn harvest of green grapes painted in watercolor on tissue paper, by Conni Schaftenaar.

I was interested in the idea of painting watercolor on tissue paper, which you can crumple up and get textural and color results similar to Masa paper. I found a beautiful photo of green grapes on PMP-Art.com, a free photo reference site for artists.

I drew the grapes and leaves with a Micron pen on regular gift wrap tissue paper. I had a backer sheet mounted on a board ready, and I then crumpled the tissue paper drawing and soaked it in water. I carefully opened it up and spread it out on the backer sheet, which I had just coated with a thinned mixture of school glue and water. I tried to be careful not to "smooth out" the tissue too much on the glue backer so as not to lose all of the creases and ridges. After letting that dry overnight, I could then start using water color.

I initially sprayed the whole thing lightly with a mist of Pthalo Blue and a mist of Aureolin Yellow, to achieve a yellow green patina over the entire board. A lot of that spatter effect survives in some of the lighter leaves and grapes.

I then began adding darker colors to some leaves and grapes, trying to use negative techniques where it seemed to work well. Besides the Pthalo Blue and Aureolin, I used a touch of Permanent Rose on a few grapes, a little Sap Green toned down with some blue for a few darker leaves, and some Burnt and Raw Sienna on some of the leaf and grape stems. The deeper teal colors were achieved by layering Pthalo Blue and Sap Green.

Juried in to Festival of The Arts 2021, a West Michigan arts festival that includes paintings, sculptures, performance art and local food/beer/wine crafts. I'm always hugely honored to be juried in to this event!

Reference Photo from Nicola B. on PMP-Art.com - a lovely bunch of pale green grapes, with which I took much liberty:

https://pmp-art.com/nicola-b/gallery/34695/green-grapes

3rd Place Win in the Numinous Inks and Mix Contest, June 2019
1st Place Win in the Medium Challenge, September 2019
1st Place Tie in Fruity Contest, March 2020
Honorable Mention Tie in Vine-Yard Contest, August 2020
Honorable Mention Tie in Something Remarkable in Watercolor Contest, October 2020
3rd Place Tie in Fruits and Flowers Contest, October 2020
1st Place in What’s the BUZzz Blog Series- SURFACE CHOICES-ALL Media Contest, March 2021
Honorable Mention in the What’s the BUZzz Blog Series- TEXTURES- ALL Media Contest, March 2021
1st Place win in the Dare to Be Original contest, March 2021
3rd Place tie in the Food and Water contest, March 2021
2nd Place tie in the What's The Buzzz - Design and Composition contest, May 2021
2nd Place win in Focus on Green contest, August 2021
3rd Place tie in the What's The Buzzz - What Possessed You to do That contest, August, 2021
3rd Place tie in the Home Grown Season Favorites contest, September 2021
2nd Place tie in the KTBUZzz Art To Go contest, September 2021
Honorable Mention tie in the Harvest contest, September 2021
3rd place tie in the Fall Gardening contest, September 2021
Honorable Mention tie in the KTBUZZZ-AUTUMN ORGANICS- ALL MEDIA contest, November 2021
Honorable Mention tie finish in the KTBUZZZ-ABUNDANTZZZ - ALL MEDIA contest, December 2021
3rd Place tie win in the Wine Art contest, January 2022
3rd Place tie win in the Food contest, February 2022
3rd Place win in the LOTS OF GREEN - ANYTHING AND ANY MEDIUM contest, March 2022
3rd place tie in the Color Theme contest, April 2022
1st place tie in the Just For Fun Multi-Process 2 contest - April 2022
Honorable Mention finish in the Your Best Green contest, July 2022
honorable mention tie finish in the Best of Show contest, July 2022
3rd place tie in the Green Apples and Other Green Fruits and Vegetables contest, November 2022
1st place win in the Green Contest, December 2022
3rd place tie in the Top Paintings for Public Voting contest, December 2022
2nd place win in the Favorite Vineyard Images contest, December 2022
2nd place win in the Get Noticed Paintings - Got Green contest, May 2023
3rd place tie in the NATURES FULL FRAME GREEN PATTERNS CONTEST, July 2023
2nd place tie win in the Wine Art - All Mediums contest, July 2023
1st place win in the Harvest Fest contest, October 2023
2nd place tie in the Green contest, February 2024
1st place tie in the Fruits contest, February 2024

Featured in:
Beauty in Art, October 2018
Images That Excite You, October 2018
Women Painters, Hand Paintings Only, October 2018
Glimpses of Autumn, October 2018
Painting the Old Way, October 2018
Artist Salon 2 - Handmade Only, October 2018
Exclusively Drawings & Paintings, October 2018
Mixed Media Art, October 2018
Midwest America Artists, October 2018
Imagination-Artistry-Creativity, October 2018
Women Painters, Hand Paintings Only, November 2018
Only Best Paintings & Photos, January 2020
1000 Views on One Image, May 2020
Special Feature in 1000 Views on One Image, May 2020
Fine Arts Watercolor, October 2020
Beautiful Watercolors, January 2021
Mix Your Media, March 2021
The ARTIST BUZzz, September 2021
Home Grown Fruits and Vegetables, September 2021
A Woman's Touch, April 2022
Hand Created Artwork, April 2022
Trick and Treat of Nature, April 2022
Yahoo Doodles Fine Art, April 2022
Vertical Images, April 2022
All Glorious Gardens Harvest Theme Features, September 2023
The Art Workshop, February 2024
For the ART of It, February 2024
Intent of the Artist, February 2024
Art for the Cafe or Restaurant, February 2024
Foodrama, February 2024

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