When life gives you lemons...paint them!

Two Lemons (9x12, oil SOLD!)

Okay, so this painting will NEVER hang in a used car dealership's wall, but still, these lemons provided me with some fun doing shadows and, largely warm colors. I particularly enjoyed the challenge of creating that bumpy surface texture in oils, and the "white" highlight, and in less than an hour, wet-on-wet oils. One of them was a tad green so I wanted to show that. Lemons go from green to a light yellow, and get progressively darker as they ripen. The lemon on the left was a little more ripe than the one on the right. I think later, I used them to cook with-chicken with garlic, wine and lemon juice. Mmmmmmm.