“Still life with persimmons.”
Last week I painted my first self portrait, which also was my first painted portrait, coming after two charcoal portraits and some practice with cast painting and drawing, including the faceted had.
But, after the first selfie, I decided it was time for another still life. I haven’t done many recently, especially not with fruits. So I have chosen to do some. Went to do some shopping and bought a selection of fruits. After spending few hours playing with them, backdrops, composition, I finally did an arrangement with two persimmons in a red bowl.
I painted it using the sight size method, as it comes naturally for me after so much practice. It feels like second nature and I found that it is more difficult for me, now, to try any other methods of scaling. I should probably have to try more other methods, in the future, but for the moment I feel very confident about using sight size.
I Used my usual palette, adding kings blue light and cadmium yellow deep. I didn’t use any medium, just turps to thin the paints and clean the brushes. For the shadows, I used ultramarine blue on the backdrop and s mixture of Italian Cassel, transparent brown oxide and some ultramarine blue on the table cloth.
I worked alla prima (wet on wet), over few sessions.
So, here it is:
“Still life with persimmons.”
Oil on linen.
18x24cm (7” X 10”).
