Fir Green Red Delicious

I often paint apples in quads.  I get confident near the end- but when I begin the new painting?  Apples are back to being difficult.

So why would I paint a red delicious apple in shades of sage, fir, and chartreuse? Why not take the easy way, and paint a red apple red?

It was so artificial looking already.  Vaguely cube-shaped and fire engine colored Red Delicious apples always look so fake to me. I wanted to take its crisp exterior and turn it shadowy.  Inverted, it looks less like candy, and the form and function of shadows and curves become more important.

For this piece I played with drips, glows, lost edges, and the blurring of light.