Daily Painting

Daily painting: Roscoff onion

Roscoff onion

17cm x 14cm, oil on board

Painting status: SOLD

Painted Sunday, 20 March 2011 · Still life paintings

The conversation

Thoughts on this painting

8 comments

Alain

Wonderful flame-haired background which so romanticallly marries the flaming onion.

Pat Carlson

I am so pleased that your painting of the onion features prominently on the Facebook page. That is one worthy onion!!

Barbara M

I was so intrigued by the name for this onion that I looked up its history.
I must say that I am equally fascinated by the unusual background for this
Roscoff. It works well, as Alain has already noted. Now I will try to figure out why.

Carol

Tried to paint an onion myself today as part of a still life, I almost pulled my hair out. IT very hard to get the colors right. Carol

Alain

The small goatee,the leaning positioning,the bent stalk,the crackle of the highlights of the onion,all subtly echo back this bustling background.

Painter’s notes

Who would have thought an onion could have so many friends—The facebook page of the: 'Oignon de Roscoff''

Julian Merrow-Smith ·