Painting Fruit Begins..

Painting fruit went well. I purchased them from a green grocers as I wanted to choose pieces of fruit myself. I wanted to choose a good shape and size for my photographs.
I had to be quite quick at painting as I didn't want any of them to go soft. 

I brought a few tubes of paint and wanted to create pastel colours. I mixed the colours myself and painted it onto the fruit with a sponge.

When placed in front of the backdrop I felt it worked very well. My favorite being the pineapple.

I created a mood board consisting of my images of fruit and pantone colours from Spring/Summer 2012 trends.