For over thirty years, I’ve illustrated food. I loved the challenge of rendering fruit; each variety had beautiful colors and textures to capture.
With peaches, I always used an opaque medium (usually colored pencil) for the reflected light at the edges of the fruit. This gave the impression of “fuzz” because opaque mediums have a bluish cast.
This was one of my earliest jobs of my career. The fruit is very stylized here.
The illustrations I am sharing below were used on labels to indicate peach flavor for bath soap, baby food, sour candy, tea, yogurt, beverages, jam, wine cooler and sorbet.
This illustration is currently on jars of Beechnut Baby Food.
Just for fun, I’ve included some other fruit images in addition to peaches on labels groupings.
A marker layout in progress.
Before creating my final painting, I always provided sketches to my clients.
This was a recent illustration.
These paintings were rendered with markers, colored pencils and/or watercolor dyes. My motto is “whatever works.” I have a blog where I describe my technique and have a lot more information. It is at:
http://foodartist.wordpress.com
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