Remember seeing these commissioned oil paintings in progress?

The customer was very happy and asked for more!

Remember these three commissioned oil paintings?

This customer was also very happy and asked for more!

Here they are in their infancy.

And here they are finished: detailed to the nth degree, signed, scanned, and now with varnish drying!

 

As a Central California artist, I have access to wonderful fresh fruit. Every one of these was painted from photos that I took while the fruit was on the tree or of fruit that came from a friend’s packing house.