"5 Green Apples" oil painting study

It is cheering to paint these colorful studies of fruit in the middle of our gray winter days. This one is about 10"x12" oil on unstretched linen.

color exercise pink grapefruit oil painting

It surprises me how much color influence I see when I look closely. oil paint on canvas board. The book called for an orange as model, but I used a pink grapefruit cuz I ate the orange. One of the hazards of using food as a painting subject.