“Still life with flowers, tangerines and a plum.”
I have just had a good week for art. I decided to dedicate more time to it, hence I have been studying for the whole week at Sarum studio in Salisbury. Painting from a life model (nude painting) and portraiture. With the nude I have been experimenting and playing with lights and shadows. I wanted to have a dark painting, as some say that a good painting has to be at least 85% dark and I am quite pleased with the end result. Some say it is to dark, but I beg to differ. The pose is dark, but has a rich colour, and the light hitting it is striking. Anyway, it is a bit controversial but I like it and think it has s bit of Caravaggio character in it. I am pleased with the portrait as well, being my second painted portrait, after the selfie. For both I have only used Ivory Black, Italian Cassel, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre and White.
As for the weekly challenge, I have made a composition with a glass vase with some flowers next to the glass plate I have used before – with the same arrangement (two tangerines and a plum) plus an extra tangerine. For variation I used tangerines with stalks and leaves.
I used my usual palette, replacing transparent brown oxide with asphaltum and I used De Mayerne medium diluted with turpentine.
Painted it wet on wet, over few sessions in the evenings.
So, here it is:
“Still life with flowers, tangerines and s plum.”
Oil on linen.
12” X 16” (30 X 40cm).
