The Challenge for April is Texture.

By Claudette Vaillancourt Sending you some photos of fruits:

By Susan Irving Fooling around with Fresh Paint again.  First one is Fruit…. Watercolour app.  The second is a somewhat digitally altered photo of a healthy breakfast I made.

By Hélène Céré Fruits!  A few years back during a study of Cézanne in class, I chose this painting called “Nature morte aux pommes”.

I learned a lot going through the process of reproducing one of his paintings.  How he applied colours and layered them. How he captured the reflection of one fruit on another and how it altered the hue of the shaded area.   I have never paid so much attention to the details of an apple like during this exercise! The original is oil based and I worked with acrylics.

My work completed. 

By Bobi Leutschaft Poitras Here are two paintings for the February Challenge. 

By Yvonne Callaway I bought a glass banana that generated a series of images.

By Isabelle Utovac

By Laura Peck

Fruit… Fruit…

I must get out.

And find inspiration instead of representation.

Almost none of my treasured stamps

Showcased an actual fruit.
That got me thinking.

And out.

Why fruit are so underrepresented.

Albeit their healthy characteristics

Not to mention their aesthetics

But wait… No, no. NO.

I don’t want to go

To the berry in the middle of February.

I want to wait. To watch in the longing

To notice the blooming then the growing

Of the luscious fruit that grow in Ontario

Especially, in Glengarry.

Free your mind and your basket from the deadly plastic.

It doesn’t do any good to you nor to the fruit,

Refuse the packaging, resist the exotic.

You will then taste the difference when you travel there.

A propos de Fruit …

Défendu, c’est tout de suite ce qui m’est venu.

Ah, le péché…délicieux et sain.

Autant que les fruits du pêcher.

Revenons au sujet qui se déguste cru.

Le climat tempéré permet aux français

De trouver des fruits en toutes saisons,

Les pommes, les poires et les pêches

Des raisins, des cerises ou des kiwis.

Fruits exotiques, un peu moins

Oranges et mandarines viennent des pays voisins.

Le plus souvent en vrac ou en carton, même si,

De plus en plus, le plastique les emballe

Et nous « emmerde. »

L’emballage plastique,

Un fléau invasif que je me suis défendue

Et qui me tente en permanence.

Il est parfois dur de résister.

À l’appel de la framboise ou de la fraise…

En février? 
Ben voyons donc!

Attendons. Patientons. Réjouissons-nous.

Rien de tel que les fruits poussés tout à côté.