Lemons Bathed in Moonlight

by Maria Hunt

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$125

Dimensions

8.000 x 10.000 inches

Title

Lemons Bathed in Moonlight

Artist

Maria Hunt

Medium

Painting - Pure Watercolor On Antique Pages

Description

When you are unable to set up lighting to get "accurate" light and Shadow for paintings like this, you have to draw from the imagination, and perhaps memory. In painting these lemons, Illness had me confined for weeks.. and painting small works was the ideal distraction. I found the painting rather "boring," so I tried a blue background... this is where the "Oops" moment occurs. In this situation the indigo did not spread right on the antique pages. It seemed the only solution was to let the lemons be hanging from a tree and to put a moon in the sky... that worked just so far... then it looked silly... so I added splatters of "stars" and moonlight on the leaves. .. Imagination at a trot.

It doesn't belong in a museum... and isn't the best of paintings... it was painted in joy... treasured, as it was taking form. Maybe it might find a home on someone's kitchen wall adding the perfect touch

For these tired and worn pages from the "Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge" printed in 1884, I found a new purpose:

These pages have been & continue to be used to raise funds for local charitable organizations through painting gatherings, where guests enjoy refreshments and paint abstract or fun creations on antique pages to be mounted for them on acid free paper.

Special THANKS to the following Fine Art America groups for featuring this painting on the home page:

Exclusively Drawing and Painting 08/24/2017

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August 17th, 2017

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