“Lemons and a lemon squeezer.”
Probably, by now, still life becomes one of my favourite genre. If a year and a half ago, I would have done only a few, now most of my paintings are still life. Of course, bad weather takes a huge part – is always more convenient to stay indoors and do a still life, rather than facing the wind and occasional rain out in the middle of the nature. And fruits are still available at the supermarket.
For this week, I thought of doing something nice and simple hence lemons – I like painting lemons. For the composition I added a glass lemon squeezer and played a bit with the light.
I used a reduced version of my usual palette, without cobalt blue and replacing yellow medium with yellow deep. I used liquin as medium, because last time I wasn’t very happy with de Mayerne – the canvas absorbs it uneven and also pigments absorb it differently. I will have to experiment more with de Mayerne to be able to use it with consistence. Another reason I didn’t use de Mayerne it was that it is more liquid and doesn’t preserve the brushstrokes as well as liquin. I painted it alla prima, using thicker paints than most of my recent work.
So, here it is:
“Lemons and a lemon squeezer.”
Oil on linen.
18 X 24 cm (7” X 10”)
