This painting in watercolour with its varied shapes and colours needs juggling with the paint to achieve its harmony.

Juxtaposition of contrasting hues creates a tension of its own together with varied shapes close to eachother

Painting Still Life is becoming an addiction, and this one was developed from a sketch I made without reference.
It developed into a technical challenge of balancing the shapes and the colours in order to achieve a harmony of sorts.
I hate intellectualising compositions...you either like the result or you don't....can you see it on your wall at home? That's the key question.

Found objects in my home make ideal subjects for a Still Life.
I have several Chinese articles which friends have given me and I assembled them and constructed this painting.
The ideogram is "cha"...no prizes for guessing its meaning.
I ate the banana shortly after painting it.

I was lucky enough to sell my first still life (below) the same day I put it in Ebay.....so I thought "Here goes..." and decided to paint another, using found objects around the house.
The technique of joining up the background shapes to the objects, thereby creating new patterns, requires balanced colour contrasts, which are fun to work out