Daily Painting

Daily painting: Plums with blue-green background

Plums with blue-green background

17cm x 8.5cm (7"x3½"), oil on gessoed card

Painting status: SOLD

This painting is available as a limited-edition print.

Painted Thursday, 2 September 2010 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

15 comments

Eric Shapiro

Man, I thought I ate alot of plums. All gorgeous but I prefer this bigger, fatter California plums.

mariah

Wow. This is stunning... I 'm with Joseph, how was that green blue made?... once again, it is just such a deep pleasure for the eyes to visit here.

Rebecca

It is so beautiful to see the contrast of the plums against that wonderful blue background!
They just completely pop!!

jol

What a spectacular contrast between the plums and the aqua/blue-green background with shadows on the right. Thank you!

Shirley Fachilla

The blue reappears in a lighter value. Love that blue. It's a wonderful combination with the warmth of your plums.
Will you ever tell us what blue in the tube you began with? Or is it a blue we all should know but that you have mastered in its many possible aspects?

Julian

It's a mixture, for the whole painting I used titanium white, cadmium yellow, raw sienna, cadmium red, burnt sienna, permanent alizaron, manganese violet, pthalo blue, manganese blue, ultramarine blue, permanent green and mars black, which is give or take a few colours a pretty standard palette for me.

Joyce herold

Julian,
This painting is just so lovely. My painter self resonates "yes".
Thank you for inspiring and blessing me. Joyce

Liz

That is a gorgeous shade of green, really works well with those plums! a great series, all those different plums.