“A plum and two clementines.”
A great week for me. I managed to get two extra days off at the end of my holiday and it made all the difference. A very good week for art, I did a nice life drawing study at the Sarum Studio in Salisbury, completed couple of paintings from previous weeks and some more things done.
For my weekly painting I have chosen yet another still life. Because is still winter and I think that citruses are perfect in winter I have chosen some again. Two clementines from the local supermarket, pared up with a plum. I Painted it alla prima, using some turpentine and some diluted de Mayerne medium. The palette was reduced, just Italian genuine Cassel, transparent brown oxide, violet dark, amethyst, cadmium yellow lemon, cadmium yellow deep, cobalt blue and white.
I completed the painting over few hours, few sessions in one day.
I was trying to depict more of the light, leaving the darks and adding the middle tones and highlights. For the darks, I used the dark underdrawings and reinforced the transitions. I only painted the cast shadows.
So, here it is:
“A plum and two clementines.”
Oil on linen.
24 X 30cm (10” X 12”).
