Today I have focused on the apples in the painting. They are, of course deeply distressed to hear of the recent fate of the lemons, so I wanted to capture this emotion whilst still remaining true to Cezanne's style.....You know how Cezanne leaves a lot of white paper and how this was a very innovative thing for him to do at the time.... well the idea of being 'drained of colour' sprung to my mind as I was thinking about this. So, using his layering technique to build form I have painted the colour on the bottom half of the apples but kept the top half pale in colour or left the white paper showing. The apple that Cezanne often has falling off the side of the table I have made so pale he has fainted and is rolling off the table. Cezanne often outlined his fruit with charcoal and then mirrored the shape around it so I have accentuated this idea to make it appear he is rolling off.
Cezanne also used a very vivid green for some of his fruit so I have made my row of apples 'sick to the core' at the news so I have painted these mainly greens with just a touch of red in a few. Cezanne was much more concerned with shape and form than texture and detail so often his fruit would just be shapes. In my painting I have made my row of apples face away from pearo so they have no stalk showing or just a suggestion of the base of the apple.
So here is a close up of the apples who are drained of colour or sick to the core.
next I get to paint the telephone and Pearo. I'm off to look at Photo's of David Suchet's Hercule Poirot.Ona
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I am so enjoying your thought process and sense of humor. Not only are you a wonderful artist but you can really draw one in with the telling of the tale.
Thanks Vicki. Developing the story is almost as much fun as painting the picture.
Ona
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