🍆 Daily Painting – The 20-Minute Eggplant!

Hi guys!!!
OMG a super, super quick one today… and honestly this looks fabulous for the 20–30 minutes I spent on it.
Like I said — busy day, ballet chaos incoming, and I’m still trying to keep the “paint every single day for a month” challenge alive. The dishes hate me... but meh.

For those who are new here:
Daily painting means getting as much down as you can in a short sitting and calling it “complete enough.”
Perfection is not the requirement.
Momentum is.
struggling for perfection is where i loose it and don't learn... so i keep going. next next next... until i get something i WANT to redo and be perfect.

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🎨 Today’s Painting – The Eggplant!

I’ve been wanting to paint an eggplant for ages but always thought it might be tricky.
Plot twist: it was super fast and super easy.

as you can see, it was a 20 min painting.

I grabbed one, sketched it, and went straight in.

Underpainting

Same as usual — a warm wash of:

• Burnt Sienna
• Raw Umber
• Tiny dab of Quin Magenta

I felt like the cool eggplant needed a warm base to glow off.

Background

Honestly the background took the longest — I repainted it three times and still don’t have the warm/cool balance quite right.
Not my favourite part of this one, but hey — daily painting life!

The Eggplant

The actual eggplant itself was SO quick:

Main colours:

• Quinacridone Magenta
• Ultramarine Blue
• Tiny touch Raw Umber (in the deep shadow zones)
• White (just a touch for highlights)

I swear the eggplant is like 5 brushstrokes.
Three minutes to lay in the shape, two more to do the highlights.
Never painted something so fast.

THIS is why daily painting is awesome... had this been a "big painting" i would have been like... no way... lets go back and spend 20 mins in the eggplant and i bet i would have fucked it up... however it was a daily painting and i was like RESULT!!!

Greens (the stem)

Another 4 minutes.
I used:

• Chromium Green
• Cad Yellow Medium
• Raw Umber
• Phthalo Green for a shadow punch
• White for the light edge

And that was it!

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🎨 Colour List (for my fellow painters)

Underpainting: Burnt Sienna, Raw Umber, Quin Magenta
Eggplant body: Ultramarine, Quin Magenta, Napthol Crimson (optional), Raw Umber, White
Stem greens: Chromium Green, Cad Yellow Medium, Phthalo Green, Raw Umber, White
Shadow: Raw Umber + White + tiny Dioxazine Purple (estimate from the picture)
Background: White + Raw Umber + Raw Sienna + Cad Yellow Medium (estimate)

🩰 Life Update

Tomorrow we’re getting into the sticky end of ballet week — yikes.
I am not ahead of schedule, so we’ll see how the daily painting holds up.

perhaps it might be a "compilation" video or something tomorrow or friday (even worse of a day). see how we go.. althought actually it will be SUNDAY that will be the worst one... maybe i will take my paints TO the ballet concert that is on sunday. (its a mini one. not THE ballet concert) surely i can serve people snacks AND paint at the same time?

See ya folks!!!
BLINGIT