"Odd One Out"

Oil on canvas panel - 8 x 8
Completed 2010/01/29

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The story this painting tells is that the little bowl has room for only two fruit, so the tangerines pushed the lemon out.

This painting was done with primary colors - ultramarine blue, alizerin crimson, cadmiums (red medium, orange, yellow medium, & light), and a little Winsor yellow. Once again, a purple mix of ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson was used to create the browns and grays in this painting.

This painting took a few days to complete because of interruptions. I finally put down my brushes and said, "Enough!" Sometimes - in fact, too often - I find myself at the place where anything more that I do is the wrong thing. I have learned from having created problems before that this is the point I quit and say, "Done!"

Rick Petersen