Fruit Landscape
(12" x 24", oil on canvas)

My original intention was a 12" square piece, but, try as I might, I could not make this bowl of cherries work within a square format. After wrestling for a day, it finally occurred to me that the proportions of the bowl would never look comfortable in a square. The shape of the bowl called for breathing room on the width, so I finally stopped trying to force a round peg into a square hole and changed the shape of my canvas.

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