Study in color, I deliberately picked various kinds of fruit to compare each color, some of them are more reflective then others, the fig seems to absorb the light rather then reflect it, I kept the orange in the back

Picked an oriental theme for this one, I think in my still lives I go for a calming and zen-like effect, I let the objects and colors do the talking instead of me, even the painting process goes smooth and

Classical pose done in close values under soft diffused daylight, in a case like this the flesh tones get close to the background tone so I’m really careful about the edges of each shape, a lot of times they can

I painted this portrait about 2-3 years ago but this is the first time it’s available for sale, it is slightly larger then my usual small size portraits like 5×7’s or 6×8’s so I think that’s nice for a change,

I was thinking for a while how to integrate my blog with my main site www.danielpeci.com and what would be the best way to do it, with a lot of  (Google) research and technical support from experts I decided to move