A woven basket brimming with apples, pears, an orange, and a banana, with a bunch of grapes spilling over the side and a pear and two apples resting on the table beside it. Easy — big shapes and bold lines.
A market-fresh palette suits this basket: shiny red and leaf-green apples, golden-green pears, deep purple grapes with a few circles left pale as highlights, a ripe yellow banana, and a bright orange tucked at the back. Weave the basket in two browns — a warm tan for the wide bands and a darker brown for the thin upright slats — so the woven pattern stands out clearly against the fruit.
Start with the fruit at the back of the basket and work forward, so the front apples overlap neatly. The grapes are the smallest shapes on the page; save them for last and color one circle at a time. A soft gray shadow under the basket and beneath the loose pear and apples on the table grounds the whole picture.
