The painting class I have been taking has kept me especially busy lately. This piece is about 3' x 5' and took about 20 hours. It is a still life done from observation with oil paints on lenox paper with a yellow ochre bistre.
The original inspiration for this piece was meant to be Cezanne, but as my painting developed his inspiration became harder and harder to read until it almost disappeared entirely. I added Cezanne's classic purple outline to a few of the fruits to add emphasis, but that is basically the only area that his influence still exists. I fell out of touch with the Cezanne inspiration and into my own style of painting.
