Limes

[Donna T]

When you buy a whole bag of limes and they call out to be models you have to listen to them. I posed them on a cardboard box and added the little green bottle to keep them company. I love painting from life and being able to study what the light is doing. 10x10 acrylic on watercolor paper

 

[Grapes]

I'm glad you got the bag of limes and this painting is gorgeous I like a lot the colors. The dark parts of the cardboard box is very beautiful color. So are the limes. I like everything about this painting.

 

[PaintBoss]

That’s an awesome painting Donna! Those limes look very touchable. I love your composition too. You have a bit of abstract in you! And I like that thinking combined with still life. Switching it up enough that it’s an extra added interest to the piece.

 

[Joy]

Wonderful texture, values, and composition.

 

[Jo Castillo]

Everything about this is great. Lovely to see. Applause to you!!!!

 

[Bartc]

Excellent! I wonder how many will see the subtlety in your foreground, table and background patterning. A bit of Rothko and Mondrian in tonal fashion. Love this.

 

[Donna T]

I’m so glad you guys like this. Thanks so much for the feedback Grapes, Christine, Joy, Jo and Bart. I have been looking at a lot of contemporary still life work lately and trying to find a way to get some abstract interest going along with the “things” of a still life. There’s a failed attempt under this where I tried out outlines and flat shapes and it was just too much of a change for me. I’m a little proud of myself because I invented colors for the box, left pencil lines showing and even left the drips from where I sprayed a wet layer with water. What’s the world coming to?

 

[Joy]

Kudos for your creative interpretation of the subject! My take on things is way too literal, and my imagination is non-existent.

 

[Bongo]

love this one, the modeling is well done.

 

[Donna T]

Joy, you do such beautiful work with watercolors and I think you need to give yourself credit for every time you loosen up and deviate at all from a reference. In my first attempt at this one I painted the cardboard box a color which is probably known somewhere as cardboard box brown. It’s hard to step away from being literal!

Thanks Bongo. I hope you’re getting out to paint.

 

[snoball]

Excellent. I can taste them. Love limes.

 

[Donna T]

Thanks Sno. Anything with lime, cilantro and cumin doesn’t last in my house.

 

[Artyczar]

What a beautiful little painting, and a contemporary vibe on it, too. It's really a winner!

 

[Donna T]

Thank you Ayin. It’s nice to make even a little progress in changing directions.