"Bananas and Nectarines"

Oil on 6"x6" hardboard panel.
I thought I would rearrange the fruit and do another version of this painting.

"Bananas and Nectarines"

Oil on 6"x6" hardboard
This painting was difficult to photograph because of the dark background, and parts of it were dryer than others. This image is pretty good though, just a bit of glare. I'll try to get a better one, once it's dry and varnished.

Nectarine, and Green Grapes.

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel

Here is my finished painting, the grapes were a very hard thing to paint, I don't know what my problem is with green!!! I can't seem to realize how yellow some green things are. Maybe I should just forget about putting any green out on my palette, and just use the yellow, and blue. I had a teacher once explain that it was a good idea, when painting green things, especially in landscapes, not to use a green, because then you're stuck with it, you can't adjust it toward yellow, or blue... Actually, that was in a watercolor class, so I suppose, in oil it would be different, you can always change it... Anyway, after a few tries, I was happy with the way they came out. The reds and oranges in the nectarine seemed for me to be much easier to understand, and to paint. I also changed the position of the nectarine a bit, the stem seemed too close to the center, it looks better turned to the side a bit.