Ripe and Overripe Fruit, Satisfying Antique Still Life on Artist Board handmade rubber band gun paper is not brittle

paper is not brittle

It would be especially dramatic filled with large white lilies or a few tall flowering branches

Both look as if they might be right out of a New Yorker cartoon

even if in my parka

Ripe and Overripe Fruit, Satisfying Antique Still Life on Artist Board handmade rubber band gun paper is not brittleThe luminous orange of this antique oil on board still life drew me like a magnet from a distance I thought at first oranges, but now I'm thinking maybe peaches, or even apricots? Whatever the case, perfectly complemented by the abundance of deep plum fruits surrounding them small plums I think (the right sort of greens) looking as they've just been plucked. Then this well bruised banana in front of them, lending a sense of momento mori to it all