"Punk Orange" - SOLD

 

 

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6" x 8" oil on archival canvas panel

 

This is a rare "Sunday Night Painting". I visited a local Upscale Market Store on Sunday for some Christmas wine and other goodies, and was delighted to find a surprisingly large variety of new and strange fruits in the bins, including "Satsuma Mandarins" with leaves still attached. The roommate picked this one out as her favorite. My conservative eye had located an orange with a couple of cute little leaves, but she dug a little deeper and pulled out this one with a full punk rock hairdo.

 

I brought home three or four different things to paint and was excited enough that I went ahead and started painting at 8 P.M. on a Sunday (Normally at that time I crash out and play video games or watch a downloaded copy of the week's episode of Top Gear). The late start wasn't a problem, as I had to paint fast anyway - the 75W bulb in my painting lamp is unkind to fresh greenery.

"Berries And Orange"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

I'm usually a bit stumped when it comes time to title these more "traditional" type miniature still-life paintings. I don't want to be pretentious, but I don't want to be flat and explicitly technical, either. On the other hand, sometimes flat and technical is all I can think of. I wanted to to paint some of the berries from the tree outside again, I had a creamer to put them in, and I needed something large and eye-catching for contrast. Staying seasonal, I picked an orange from the store. I used one of my new background cloths. So... It's "Berries And Orange" because it's the shortest way of telling the truth about the painting.

 

This is not to say that I had no enthusiasm about the subject beyond the immediately technical, but I'd rather not beat the viewer over the head with highbrow noise (especially since eBay listings need short titles). Unless you're into that sort of thing? "Existential Pairing #5: Fruits of The Season" could work, too, if you like. Whatever levitates your seagoing craft, wink smiley!

"Orbs"

 

 

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6" x 8" oil on archival canvas panel

 

From the "I Swear The Title Is Not A Dirty Euphemism" file. I meant to paint this arrangement last week using an Australian blood orange - they were rounder and more red - but the roommate wiped out the last orange before I could paint it. I had to substitute a tangerine instead. The glass item is actually a teapot, the roundness of which inspired both the idea and the title.

"Silver Cup, Red Orange"

 

 

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5" x 7" oil on gessoed panel

 

I bought a worn silver cup at a thrift store a while back that I have really wanted to paint for a while now. There was no special idea behind this one, just a combination of silver, orange, and blue, using my favorite backdrop cloth (which is actually a ladies pajama top, I think). The orange is an Australian blood orange acquired at a local upscale market store, of interest to me because it's red more than "orange". I thought about showing it partly peeled, but a blood orange with the flesh showing looks a bit freaky. Maybe I should have done that for Halloween...