610 Satsuma Branch

 Satsuma Branch

Oil on Canvas

13x8"

$230

     This branch with one satsuma was hanging over the edge of the table. The setup had several oranges and a lovely white teapot, but this little hanging branch is what looked beautiful to me. I especially loved the cast shadow against the table cloth.

Blue Bowl

Oil on Canvas

6x8"

$96

     

     This is the last of the mandarins from last year. The color is such a perfect orange. I have promised myself my own mandarin tree next year so that I can always have oranges with leaves at my finger tips.

Mandarin Bowl

Oil on Canvas

8x10"

$160

     I love to see the mandarins in my blue bowl. What a color combination!

Sliced Orange

Oil on Canvas

6x6"

$75

     Sliced fruit is such fun, a departure from my usual fruit still life. Getting the shadows the right value can take a lot of looking. The shadows in this one started out much darker and I did not enjoy looking at it until I lightened them up. And then I had to remember to make the reflection duller than the subject. Much to consider for such a small painting.

Mandarin Bowl

Mandarin Bowl

Oil

8x10"

$160

     I wanted to continue with the warm background. The slightly blue bowl is a nice complement, and nature provides the lovely cool green leaves. Can't improve on that.

Mandarin on Blue

Mandarin on Blue

Oil on Canvas

6x6"

$72

     Orange and blue. They are so great together they should be labeled as "too easy."

     The little mandarins continue to please and delight me and I seem to need something friendly these days. I will save the challenges for another day.

     

Two More Mandarins

Two Mandarins

6x8"

Oil

$96

     This painting is very similar to one I did a few weeks ago, but it is different just as every moment is different. While I painted this one, the other one was completely out of mind. That must be what makes it possible to paint the same thing over and over, like those haystacks.

   

Mandarin Pair

Mandarin Pair

6x8"

Oil

$96

DPW $76

     Two bright orange mandarin oranges. Two orange balls would be fun to look at, but I love the complexity the stems and leaves add. The shadows are an important element too. This was fun to paint.

    

Mandarin Single

Mandarin Single

6x8"

Oil

$96

DPW $76

     Imagine a box full of bright orange mandarins with their stems and leaves still on! The box even said, "With stems and leaves." For me that was the best news. Supermarket fruit is so bare. The greenery makes the fruit so beautiful and interesting. Orange--what a color! I bought the whole box. I now have plenty of something lovely to paint for days and days.