"Peaches caught in a blue patterend room", oil on canvas, 10"x8", $75.
I decided to do another small fruit study to get back into the painting mode after being on the road for three weeks. At first I was not going to paint the busy pattern of the napkin that these peaches were resting on but then I thought why not give it a try. You can always change an oil painting if you don't like it. You just grab your palette knife and start scraping it out. My challenge was to paint the pattern on the back wall flat, as it was in the napkin, but to give that sense of foreshortening to the surface that the peaches are resting on so the pattern becomes distorted. Otherwise, it would look like the peaches are floating in the air. I think I did acheive this. These are the little things that I like working on when I do a small study. I can finish a painting in a couple of hours and then take what I learned to my larger and more complex paintings.
What I'm working on today; I printed out some of my travel photos and plan to begin some oil studies. I will be working 14"x11" and the ones that I really like I will paint larger ones of. I'm setting up on my driveway because the weather is so gorgeous. Stop by and watch me paint if you have a minute.
I started to stretch some 54"x 42" canvases yesterday over at the Town & Country space and hope to convince my daughter to help me finish them today. You really need two people to stretch canvas that big. One to pull and one to staple.
If you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact me at 937-672-6717 or lpuncer@woh.rr.com
