The fruit looks a little bit different here in Canada especially when painting indoors in the the evening with artificial lights. By comparison, in Brazil I got to paint fresh fruit of great variety out in the South American sun when it was shining. Keep in mind its freezing cold outside with a meter of snow, so we are lucky to have any fresh fruit at all, and to be fair, the bananas at the other grocery store looked a lot better than these ones. That mango incidentally, is probably from Brazil anyways! Painting fruit can be difficult, although the shapes are simple enough, there are colour variations and textures to pay attention to, and different light and shadow effects. Its good practice anyways, and I kind of enjoy it more and more. Cezanne was famous for painting still life of fruit, he would set up a whole table full and paint the whole scene.
Bananas mango apple, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, February 2026
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