Picasso Got It Right Again

Picasso is quoted to have said: One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Indeed, a peach is all one needs. This whole painting for a peach (or better, a bunch of peaches taken one at a time) is in its final stages on my easel.

When I recently looked at my studio wall, I saw an awful lot of grey in the paintings displayed. As prior blogs note, grey is very important; but suddenly it seemed there was a little too much and some color was in order. Luckily, we were still in the midst of local peach season and a house guest had recently given us a beautiful French tea towel from her trip to the south of France. What more color could a painter ask for. Picasso was right, just the peach would have done it.