daily painting titled Clementine

Clementine

14cm x 12cm (5½"x4¾"), oil on gessoed card Painting status: SOLD
Daily painting for Thursday 19 March, 2009
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This fruit Like a heart Bea-ting bea-ting bea-ting Exultant and lordly Like an offering Brought us By a fourth wise man This fruit Promise of Halcyon days For the sinless newlyweds Like in the " Arnolfini portrait " Painted by a soft-hearted Jan Van Eyck...
The simplicity of this painting is deceptive. With light, colour, and contrast, you draw the eye of the viewer to the beauty of an orange, both the fruit and the colour. You teach us to look more closely and carefully.