"The Big Apple"

"The Big Apple"

by J Joy Nocifora ©2011

8 x 10 oil on canvas panel (unframed)

I just love a big, shiny, red apple! I remember the ones that my mom always put in my school lunch, which I quickly traded for a friend's vanilla wafers filled with marshmallow creme. Who could resist? I did not think about the apple's beauty then, but if we had traded on the basis of beauty, then of course my apple would have been the object of desire.

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Granny Green Apple & Strawberries

6" x 6"

oil on archival Gessobord

Glorious fruit! Is there anything more fun to paint than fruit? For the artist, fruit gives us a vast array of complementary colors, shapes, heights, etc., to arrange in various compositions. In this still life, oil painting, the lively color of the green Granny Smith apple next to luscious red strawberries make a striking combination. Sometimes it is hard for me to decide on a background color. I think the cool background softens the vivid colored fruit a bit.

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