Fruit Trinity
(16" x 16", oil on canvas)

I am once again enjoying these smaller format paintings. As I often like to work my canvases sideways and upside down, small sizes make it easy to physically flip the work around.

I am working on perfecting my melon slices, the colour is mouth-watering in real-life, but it’s hard to render in oils. Still, I think I've done a fair job and I’m happy with the result.

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Fruit Festival
(18" x 36", oil on canvas)

Happy New Year and welcome to the fourth year of my "Painting of the Week" program.

I thought I’d kick off the New Year with a celebration of fresh fruit. For me, lots of bright colours and shapes, combined with interesting and varying textures, is an almost foolproof path to a successful composition.

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Vignette: White Enamel
(16" x 16", oil on canvas)

In this composition, I am still using the pomegranate to create a play between small detail and larger masses. I also like the contrast between the transparency of the glass jar and the opaque white of the enamel pitcher. The gold apple pulls all the colours together and adds a pleasant organic shape to the composition.

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Composition with Red Jug
(24" x 36", oil on canvas)

Close to Christmas I usually try to come up with a green and red composition. Frankly, it's not hard as this is one of my preferred colour combinations. In this painting, my all-time favorite red jug packs its usual colour punch, intensified by the adjacent green grapes.

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Jug with Pomegranates
(24" x 24", oil on canvas)

Pomegranates are back in the stores, so you can expect to see a few pieces featuring this colour-loaded fruit. Here I've paired the whole fruit with an equally bold shaped jug. Keeping both partially in shadow softens the massive shapes, while the intricate detail of the opened fruit and scattered seeds in the foreground provide a nice contrast.

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Standing Room Only
(12" x 36", oil on canvas)

I have always found that gourds, just like people, have very definite personalities and I've been wanting to do a crowd of them for sometime now. In fact, this particular painting has been in my head for many months. I planned ahead and purchased a new canvas format that would allow me to show a fair number of these characters, all lined up and jostling for attention.

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Tomatoes, Garlic and Oil
(12" x 24", oil on canvas)

This simple story speaks to the pleasures of a few fresh ingredients. The nod to the Italian flag (green, white and red) is subtle, but a nice addition for those who care to notice it.

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