During one of the walks we made in the Moselle Valley we passed by some grapevines that had the greatest Autumn colours and some of the grapes were still hanging on the plants. Those grapes were almost black and smelled as if they had started to ferment already.
My husband and me liked the view and we both made some pictures of the leaves and those dark grapes. For this painting I combined two pictures.
After the background had dried I made a composition of leaves, stems and branches and added a nice bunch of grapes.
The leaves were painted in shades of yellow with some dark browns added and for the grapes I combined several dark colours until I got the right purple-brownish almost black colour that I remembered.
Making a picture of my work proved difficult, the November light is not great and a few of my background yellows seem to disappear in the picture. Unfortunately I cannot optimise that without losing the beauty of the grapes.
The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this work and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.
