Thursday, October 01, 2020

the lemon chain

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$120 - 12"x6" original oil painting on panel

I love this long and thin format. I've used it many times in the past and just rediscovered, (or rather reminded myself) how much I like it #doh. The photo reference, which is square, is from the gracious and talented Sarah Sedwick. It was quite a challenge to figure out how to crop the pic, but I enjoy that part of the process. I think it's important to zoom in, cutting parts of objects off, so the still life doesn't just sit in the centre with a bunch of boring space around it. 
I also changed the original plate colour of blue, to purple, in order to balance the lovely yellow lemons.
Cheers Y'all! 

4 comments:

  1. Beautiful painting Nora! Love those lemons!

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    1. Hi Hilda! Thank you so much. Happy Painting. : )

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    1. Cheers! I love painting lemons. I used to find yellow a very difficult colour, but thanks to lemons I really like yellow now! ; )

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