Ripe Plums in Yellow Bowl Painting

Oil on stretched canvas| 8x10 in. This original oil on stretched canvas is a poetic composition of three ripe plums resting in a yellow bowl. It's painted in a realist style in white, blue, gold, yellow, umber, cream, yellow, red, and gray tones. Hall Groat II is a prolific painter whose work is noted for its beauty, use of light and shadow and evocative depictions of diverse subjects. Groat's painterly realist style is devoid of the rigid formality of contemporary hyperrealism, where his work projects a romantic emotion and sense of timelessness. His primary subjects include portraits, landscapes, city scenes, desserts, cocktail glasses, flowers, still lifes and narrative paintings. Groat takes a classical approach to modern subjects and his subtle use of light results in a certain intimacy. Groat began to paint as a child, as his father is a successful impressionist painter. He has produced and sold more than 2,000 oil paintings so far in his short career.