Small Bowl With Four Apricots

Small Bowl With Four Apricots
Oil on gessoed board
150x150mm

$160

It was the rich colour that attracted me to this subject.

Mixed Fruit

Three Limes in a Bowl
Watercolour on Velin De Lana
$150

Saucer of Fruit on Small Book

Watercolour on gessoed cardboard

$100

I was happy with the lively nature of the second one here. I tryed working on gessoed card which has a quite different feel about it to paper. The paint sits on the surface more and you can wipe it off more easily to correct things.

Persimmon and Other Things

Another mixed bag. I wanted to paint the Persimmon, but I felt frustrated with the watercolour medium. It would be so easy to get what I wanted using oil, but I'm stubborn when I decide I want to learn some new technique so I kept plodding along.

Persimmon
Watercolour on Velin De Lana
$100

The following small sketches on the sample paper were made on the same day as a kind of relief after the failure with the Persimmon. The limes in the bowl reminded me of eggs in a nest. I'm quite pleased with the pencil Eraser.

Limes in Small Black Bowl

Watercolour, ink and pastel on paper

$80

Pencil Eraser

Watercolour and pastel on paper

$80

Two Self Portraits

Ink and pastel on paper

Sold together for $100

Empty Black Bowl With Big Spoon

Empty Black Bowl

Pastel on Black Khadi Paper

105x150mm

$100

Another couple of "samples". The simplest subjects like this empty bowl always seem to give the most trouble. After I'd finished I thought I'd do a spoon to go with the bowl. It took about three minutes. If anyone wants both together I'll sell them at $150.

Big Spoon With Shadow

Pastel and watercolour on Khadi - Stone

150x105mm

$80