Hello guys, I want to share with you a painting I did, but before I go on I will like to discuss some thing’s about the subject matter (tomato). In this part of the world where I live in, tomato is one fruit/vegetable which is consumed so often and it’s considered as one of the favorite ingredients for cooking most meals. Tomato has a botanical name which is Solanum lycopersicum, Growing up as a kid in Nigeria, I got used to tomato stew because that was one of our favourite ingredients we use in making stew. Aside just eating it, it has a lot of health benefits like:

1. improve skin health
2. Good for hypertension
3. diabetes
4. prevent cancer
5. rich in calcium
6. improves vision etc.

These are some of the benefits why we should consume this vegetable.
But presently as I write this, the rate of inflation in my country has made a huge increase in the price of tomato’s, a lot of homes can’t afford to buy such vegetable because of how expensive it is here in Nigeria.

A Basket of Tomato is around 21 HBD equivalent to N21,000 In my country.

However, Let me take you through a step by step process of my painting, but let’s starts with the materials first
🔺 (MATERIAL)
This materials are some of the key items I used in painting this work, the liquin serves as a solvent when painting, it’s helps in the administering a paints.
The type of paint I used for this work are oil paints.
This work took me some hours to finish because when using oil paint, it take time to dry and my painting requires me working layer by layer

This is the liquin it is a fluid oil used in painting and it is a fast dry medium, the reason why most artist use it, is because oil paints takes time to dry so this liquin helps to speed up the drying process.

Progress shot 1
I started off with a blank canvas

Shot 2
I did an outline sketch of what I want to create one this image

Step 3
I added a burnt sienna paint (brown color paint) and used liquin to distribute the paint, it also helps in thinning a paint.

Thanks guys for going through my work.

I Appreciate your support 🙏🙏