Peeled and Painted

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Well, I have been avoiding making a blog for years now, but thanks to friend and fellow artist Qiang Huang I am biting the bullet and catching up with  this long overdue arena to post into.  Thank you Qiang for all your help and inspiration.
Here is a painting I did  this past weekend. I am primarily a landscape painter, ( so I say ) but it seems lately, especially with more classes than time to paint plein air, I have been doing a lot of still lifes. I find them a challenge to find a combination of objects that seem new , or not overdone.
sometimes we just have to use what we have at hand, but I think I am going to search out more interesting subject matter, and welcome suggestions on some new ideas for subject matter. For now, the object was the focus of painterly fruit, especially to capture the orange peel. I like the way the broken color pieces add vibrancy to the peel. From a little distance it all pulls together, but up close,  you can see the bits and pieces rather than having blended transitions. I want to work up more of the fruits in various modes of "undress".