Golden Delicious

The next in my continuing fruit series. Bold, bright, fun, quirky. I thoroughly enjoyed painting this piece, and am still loving playing with the thick black line work around the fruit edges. This particular piece tells its own story in the materials. I initially started this canvas as something entirely different, I started to stitch embroidery into the canvas. I embroider lots of little things, and wanted to combine my painting and embroidery together. However after starting it, I was concerned about the longevity of thread on a canvas - how do you clean it when it gets dusty? And being thread, it will collect dust for sure! So I abandoned that combo idea, and painted over the canvas. However, I left some of the thread in the canvas. I have seen the working process of other artists, sketches that can still be seen through the paint, paint scratched out and redone, and I love that, so I kept the thread as my canvasses own story of how it turned out to the finished piece! And it adds cool texture to the gesso primer underneath the paint as well.

Acrylic painting on wide stretched canvas
Ready to hang
45.5 cms x 35.5 cms x 3.8 cms
Original piece by Australian artist Sarah Walker