Painting Plums in Oils including that tricky grey bloom

Today s Foxton Friday paintilong (Friday 27th September, 2024) is about colour. Well, it s actually about light and shadow my favourite subject. Well, it s really about plums. Especially that greyish bloom you find on mature plums. That s tricky In fact, it s about all of those things. I ll be going through exactly what colours we need to paint these plums, mixing them and painting with them live, and hopefully, along the way, showing you that supposedly tricky subjects like this are not that hard if you get your colours right. And maybe, if we re lucky, a little magic might creep in.