This was the last painting I did in my class. I had a lot of trouble with the cloth. I had painted cloth once before with the clementines and thought it was not bad. However, maybe because this panel was larger and I was painting the cloth in a larger scale, I had trouble. I like how the cherries turned out with the shadows of the stems. Finding a composition I liked was hard as well, and that may also be because I am not used to painting with oils on these larger sizes (I've been painting 5" x 7" usually. So I added the lemon to take up space! I think this painting would look good in a bright white 30s tile kitchen like in my dream bungalow! (Funny since I have a dream 1800s farmhouse with a nice kitchen, but I'm nuts). I added some grey glazing to give some distance to the cloth behind the lemon and also to contrast with the lemon.
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