Cezanne Copy

Cezanne Copy

6x6in oil on canvas board  85.

It is apple and pear harvest time where I live and I thought it would be a good learning experience to copy how some of my favorite artists paint fruit.
This first one is by Cezanne. (Hope it is obvious!)
This is a detail from, Still Life With Compotier. (1879)
It is a little stiffer than his later works but the artist Gauguin owned and passionately admired this still life -  even reproducing it in the background of a portrait.
Obviously the colors are determined by the reproduction I copied from and as I cannot buzz over to Paris to see the original, I stayed as true as possible to the printed colors. I was able to learn how he saw and did his brushwork, value/color plane changes and how he introduced some of the neighboring colors into his mixtures.

Sun and Shadows ll

Sun and Shadows ll

6x8in oil on canvas board $100.

This is the second of my paintings for the Rectangle Challenge on Daily Paintworks. You would think I would be more comfortable after doing three landscapes yesterday but this was very challenging - pun intended. The different but very slight variations in the sunlit grass proved to be the most difficult. Not to have it "too mosaic" in appearance but still have it look as if it was sunny and green next to the white flowers took a lot of concentration. The blue on the table is not quite as blue as this image but I could not get it perfect on the computer.

I am enjoying this challenge very much and I do like this painting.