I am becoming mildly obsessed with fruit photographic still life's. The farmers market guys think I am the nutty curl haired lady comparing 30 tiny pears looking for the one with the best photogenic qualities.
When you are an art student, still life's became the foundation of all your fine art practices. Charcoal, paint, pencil they breakdown of apples and pears in a space teach your hands and eyes the fundamentals of objects which are occupying a space. Understand this and you begin the process of mastering that concept.
If you think them boring try a peek at some of the simple fruit still lifes of Paul Cezanne. That french guy could take a sheet draped in oranges and explode the canvas with more colors than you ever thought possible on some plain old orange. He was the Valentino of color.
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