Painting of lemons for my daughter.

 

Here's a painting I've been sketching thumbnails for, during church, for the past few years. It's really great to have an idea, and get it on a canvas. Sometimes, it comes out better than you expected.

Fruit makes a great study. I'm not the first to discover this. You make a painting with fruit as the subject and you have something very easy to live with. The beauty of a pear, or blackberry, will not bruise or perish. It will remain as long as the painting is hung on a wall. The elegance of something so quiet and simple keeps the eye returning. An artist can arrange such items in a painting, and the primary reason we bring them to our home is put away, that is, to nourish our body. What comes to our eye is the beauty of form, the light on surface, and subtle color and value transitions. A group of lemons can wait in quiet light, to be taken from the branch that supplied their full maturity. They are ready for the hands, to flavor and arrange.

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 Chicken Paintings ... and lemons too.

I ended 2012 and began 2013, painting.  One of the great things about painting so much is , you find how easy it is to be productive as a painter. I'll post more as I take pictures of them.