Waiting Just Around The Corner
In most still life paintings you see objects on a table, shelf, window sill, desk, or some other domestic flat surface. Usually there is a tablecloth or the texture of the wood surface underneath the objects.
I want to get away from this tradition by using bricks for the surface and background. You can't tell where the persimmon is because it is not on a table in a kitchen or on a shelf on a wall etc. The space is close up and intimate and the location is unknown.
I like to use shadows as objects and as a way to lead the viewer to the center of interest. The shadows also create space and form.
I grow persimmons in my garden and always have enough to paint and give away each year. I am very taken by their bright orange color contrasted with that matt purplish red-violet haze that happens as they get ripe.
I grow persimmons in my garden and always have enough to paint and give away each year. I am very taken by their bright orange color contrasted with that matt purplish red-violet haze that happens as they get ripe.
10 X 8
Oil on canvas board
$400.00 - plus shipping, contact the artist
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