This one was painted last month using pears straight from the pear tree in our back garden. It is oil on canvas board 30 x 20 cm Colours used: Titanium white, lemon yellow, burnt sienna, cadmium red, ultramarine blue, sap green. £89 to purchase. FAQ   Contact Form You may also like:Strawberry and cream – Still [...]

So after much deliberation I decided the background and foreground were too dark and made the pears look unreal – like two green glowing unidentified objects in the dark! So I  warmed up the backdrop, considerably lightened the base/foreground and toned down the vivid green to get an even more natural look. (Sometimes you need [...]

So far this painting is not working for me yet. I have added another layer to it, darkening up the background and changing the colour of the pears to a more realistic green but it doesnt have the impact I was striving for. Also I haven’t got the shape of the pears quite right.  So [...]

We have a small pear tree in our back garden which was only planted two years ago. This year it has produced nearly 30 pears and I couldn’t resist doing a still life with some actual pears from it. Here are the first steps… After preparing the canvas I started with some underpainting getting the [...]