Food for Thought

The other night I decided to try something different. I thought it might help to get away from the subject matter I had been painting and do something entirely different....so I went into the house and grabbed two clementines, got some leaves out of the yard and put them on the window sill over my palette. This is the result. What I gained from that exercise is the awareness that painting is all about shapes, value, composition, color and their relationships to each other. That's it. The subject matter can be anything....or nothing at all.