I’ve been painting a lot of lemons and oranges over the last year or so. It was the color of most modern lemon paintings I’ve seen that got me started. I don’t mean to be critical, but it always seemed wrong in some way but I couldn’t put my finger on it. And I figured out what it was. Lemons, oranges and most other objects don’t hold a local color within one hue string. Rather, they spiral upwards towards their local at the middle value and then continue past it (usually.) It’s rare for an object to stay within a hue string — the cow on the Landscape page did.
Here are a few examples, starting with my first one:
And one that I just finished:
And here’s a wrapped pear, just so I don’t appear too much of a one-trick pony:
