"Fruit" Still life Gouache painting

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Gouache on art paper

Date

12 Feb 2005

Creation time

30 minutes

Tags

Gouache painting

Paintings

Plants and nature

Still life

Comments by the artist

I was looking for something to paint when I saw some fruit across the room.

I didn't do any preliminary drawing this time, which is not like me at all. I just started painting areas of colour straight away and then neatened things up as I progressed. I was more concerned in reproducing the exact colours that I saw rather than the exact shapes. As a result, the blue stripes on the plate are slightly wonky!

Overall, I'm quite happy with the outcome.