Muscat Grapes: Work in Progress Images and Final

Because I'm going to have artwork on display at Isenhower Cellars' Woodinville tasting room in June and July I thought it would be appropriate and fun to work on a grape image. These art table grapes because that's the kind i found that were willing to pose for me. I took some snapshot of the work in progress:As usual, I built up the color with many layers rather than putting down a single layer with the final color. I find that this allows me a great deal of control over value (relative darkness/lightness) although it does create other challenges.By the time I took this third picture the piece was mostly done. There was still fine-tuning to do.Here's the final, scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop for printing. When I clean something up for printing I try to make the image on-screen match the image on paper. I don't go in and digitally touch up areas of the painting that I'm not as satisfied with unless I'm choosing to make it a watercolor/digital mixed media piece. I erase any grays (like shadows from scanning) from the white background and adjust color and contrast levels to accurately represent the original painting, and leave it at that. The image you see here is always a reduced-quality version in order to reduce download times for the website.Thanks for reading!