I'm Shelley Smart and I moved to the amazingly beautiful Hollywood Beach in Oxnard, California in February 2010.
For my first whole year at the beach, February 21, 2010 until February 20, 2011, I challenged myself to compile
a daily record in photographs and words of "A Year at the Beach." I DID IT!

Now it's time to get back to painting! I intend to post one painting a week for one year inspired by my beach photography.
And hopefully I'll add to that with other paintings as well. I will not push myself quite so hard on this blog!

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Citrus Delight

I wanted to paint some more fruit since I enjoyed the apples I did previously so I set up a more analogous color scheme. It was a lot of fun working with these colors. (Corny name, though!)

Citrus Delights, 8x10", oil on archival linen board, $125 incl ship



16 comments:

Marian Fortunati said...

Oh I LIKE this one!!... Great colors!!!
It totally works!

Sue Pownall said...

Marian has said everything I wanted to so "ditto". Fabulous piece Shelley.

Genie -- Paris and Beyond said...

The colors here really pop and almost appear to glow... Oh, I love the title, hehehe!

Bises,
Genie

Shelley Smart said...

Thanks, Genie! Isn't Citrus Delight some sort of fruit drink?? Seems vaguely familiar!! :-)

Mikko Tyllinen said...

Fantastic colors! Very beautiful!

Carol Schiff Studio said...

Gorgeous! Love the texture in the background and the way you made the orange the "star". Beautifully done!

Shelley Smart said...

Thanks, Carol! It was fun!

Mary Sheehan Winn said...

Try putting a blue or lavender background behind the citrus and you get sizzling color vibration. These are beautifully painted.

Shelley Smart said...

thanks Mary. this time I wanted to explore an analogous color scheme. But I, too, love the complements together! And I hope to paint some more...eventually.

deepazartz said...

Adding you to my bloglist, Shelley:)

Shelley Smart said...

HI, Deepa! Welcome! I hope to post some more beach paintings some day soon! Thanks for visiting and for your kind words!

suzannepaints said...

So nice. I love your blog!

Shelley Smart said...

Thanks, Suzanne(paints)! It's been a while since I've painted but hope to get back to it in a few weeks.

Jane said...

Fabulous painting, they look totally real, and the colors are awesome!

Mary Sheehan Winn said...

Hi Shelley...waving. What have you been up to.

Shelley Smart said...

Hi, Mary. We are busy selling our condo at the beach and moving to a new house (inland) and renovating that house. No painting for me until we get settled.

Thanks for writing!