Red Grapefruit

New subject for me, red grapefruit. They taste far nicer than normal grapefruits. I painted it whole and then cut it in half and painted the half. Then I squeezed it and drank it!
Oil on board 13x18cm 

Three Pears

New one out today, started several days ago and finished yesterday, one of the bigger size paintings.
'Three pears' Oil on panel 18x24cm

Lemons

This painting was more difficult than I thought, got there in the end though!
Oil on board 13x18cm

3 Plums

My latest finished painting is 3 plums. It's been a while since I did a grey background. It gives more of a contemporary look rather than the traditional dark background of the old Dutch still lifes.
Oil on board 13x18cm

Glass Cup with Teaspoon

Painting transparent things is totally different from painting solid fruit, lots of subtle reflections.

Oil on panel 15x15cm

Wine Bottle with Orange

I wanted to paint a dark wine bottle, but as I paint against dark backgrounds I decided to lighten the background a bit to show the bottle better.

Also shown framed on the right, which shows how the frame can really set the painting off.  

Oil on panel 18x13cm

Blue Jug

I bought this old pottery glazed jug from Etsy. It is actually white, but when I painted it as white it looked too harsh against the dark background. So I waited for it to dry (which took several days as white takes ages to dry!) and then changed it by putting a transparent blue glaze all over and then it looked much better.
Blue jug, pomegranate & blueberries, Oil on ampersand board 10x8"