Lemon duo still life painting in oil

Lemon Duo

Oil on MDF panel

15x15cm (6"x6")
Available on Daily Paintworks

I have a lemon tree, clementine and orange tree in my garden planted by the previous owner and they must be over 40 years old. This year the fruit on each of them is abundant, so I have plenty of willing citrus subjects to paint. Their shapes aren't perfect, in line with supermarket conformity, making them interesting to paint. Stay tuned for some more citrus still lifes paintings in the next few days.

Related Painting of some of the clementines

There's always one

Clementine still life

6x6" oil on MDF panel

There's always one - Clementine Still life with vase oil painting

There's always one - Clementine Still life with vase

Oil on gessoed MDF panel

15x15 cm (6x6 inch)

Available on Daily Paintworks

Another still life with the clementines from my garden. This little vase is one I made when I took pottery lessons about 20 years ago. I'm sure that anyone who has ever done pottery has something similar - Iron oxide glaze at the top and cobalt blue glaze at the bottom, with the iron oxide glaze running. The excitement was to see how the iron oxide had run down the vase!

About this painting
This painting is painted with a brush. I'm trying to rekindle my brush skills as since using a palette knife it is my tool of choice.

I am not sure about the effect I've achieved. It seems quite static to me and I'm wondering if I should go over every thing with more paint. I'd be interested in your opinion

 See my last clementine painting here

Pink Hibiscus still life painting palette knife painting

Pink Hibiscus still life painting

15x15cm (6x6inch) 

Palette knife painting on gessoed panel

This month's challeng in the floral forum of wetcanvas.com is Hibiscus. I searched through my hibiscus flower photos, and sketched out a couple. I eventually I came up with this arrangement. I see a few things I might change tomorrow. What would you change?