Acrylic Painting Original Art Still Life with Fruit, "Pear in Blue", acrylic on stretched canvas, 9"x12"

Acrylic Painting Original Art Still Life with Fruit, "Pear in Blue", acrylic on stretched canvas, 9"x12"

This is part of my “Painting Small and Often” collection, inspired by Carol Marine’s practice of painting daily and small and letting go of imperfections, in which I created small quick studies in a maximum of 2 days. Rather than finished pieces, these are supposed smaller studies where I experiment with a different aspect of color theory, composition, tonal values, shadows and highlights.

For my fifth painting in the series, I wanted to explore monochromatic tonal values using a very limited color palette. I chose different combinations of ultramarine blue and cyan blue for the background, and phthalocyanine blue for the pear.  The varying degrees of blue gave the whole painting a very moody atmosphere while still showing the different values of blue.  

The sides of canvas are painted using the same color palette as the painting. The artwork is signed on the front and dated on the back. It is varnished and will arrive ready to hang.