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I did this a few days ago, on the first. It is creatively titled "Three Bananas". I probably should have come up with something a little more pithy, but I'm more than a little sleep-deprived this week, so you get "Three Bananas".

Guess what it's a picture of?

Medium is acrylic on acrylic-primed canvas board (8 x 10 size). I did the blue background like two weeks before the rest of it, then had to wait until I could think of what to paint on top of it - it's done with a pallet knife of all things. The bananas were done with a brush.

As for how I ended up painting something as random as a trio of abstract bananas... I originally just picked a random color that would look good on the blue background, which turned out to be bright, bright yellow. I made a swooshy curve, which immediately made me think of bananas, so I made it a banana... except it was off-center, which drove me nuts, so I ended up adding one other, and THAT was off balance a little, so I did the third one that goes off the edge of the board. The lines in the bananas were achieved just by putting a THICK layer of yellow for the bananas, then running the brush sideways to reveal more of the blue, making it greenish.

If you'd like to utilize the nifty aspects of the Creative Commons license, credit me by name (Jamie S. White), and display/provide a link to my deviantart page.

Description
I did this a few days ago, on the first. It is creatively titled "Three Bananas". I probably should have come up with something a little more pithy, but I'm more than a little sleep-deprived this week, so you get "Three Bananas".

Guess what it's a picture of?

Medium is acrylic on acrylic-primed canvas board (8 x 10 size). I did the blue background like two weeks before the rest of it, then had to wait until I could think of what to paint on top of it - it's done with a pallet knife of all things. The bananas were done with a brush.

As for how I ended up painting something as random as a trio of abstract bananas... I originally just picked a random color that would look good on the blue background, which turned out to be bright, bright yellow. I made a swooshy curve, which immediately made me think of bananas, so I made it a banana... except it was off-center, which drove me nuts, so I ended up adding one other, and THAT was off balance a little, so I did the third one that goes off the edge of the board. The lines in the bananas were achieved just by putting a THICK layer of yellow for the bananas, then running the brush sideways to reveal more of the blue, making it greenish.

If you'd like to utilize the nifty aspects of the Creative Commons license, credit me by name (Jamie S. White), and display/provide a link to my deviantart page.