Painting in studio

SUMMARY OF PLACE:: In my studio, I set up a still life of my father's homegrown melon, and green grapes.
INSPIRATION:: Paul Cezanne was ridiculed for his opinion that quantity of color mattered. He was noted for saying, "A kilo of green is greener than half a kilo". He concluded that because a canvas is smaller than nature, you must use a greener green to adequately capture the green of nature on the canvas. To explore this Cezanne principle, I struck out to throw a plentiful amount of orange onto the canvas to best evoke the feeling of ripe cantalopes. I used a bright, exaggerated hue for the melon, and a grayed orange for the shape around the cutting board. For the cutting board, I chose blue, orange's compliment.