"Pistachios" Larger than life Gouache painting

Artist

Matthew James Taylor

Medium

Gouache on art paper

Date

13 Feb 2005

Creation time

1 hour

Tags

Gouache painting

Paintings

Plants and nature

Still life

Comments by the artist

I was eating some pistachios and I noticed how beautiful they looked up close so I decided to do a painting of them.

I drew them in pencil first then painted over the top.

The hardest thing with this work was not eating them till I was finished! =)