Still Life with Potted Plant, Olive Oil, Fruit, & Wood Statuette on Cutting Board Print

Note: This painting comes framed for free. This piece is my first foray into still life oil painting, or rather "Still LIfe": Where I painted the subjects live, rather than from a photo of them. I have recently become drawn to the challenge (and the increased difficulty) of painting something from life, perhaps only temporarily moving from my normal motif of painting from my photography. And so here, equally inspired by both Cezanne and Matisse, I opted to imagine and paint each item from a different vantage point: For the plant, I was sitting. For the plant's pot, I was standing. For the Olive Oil (s), I did a little of both. For the fruit, I sat back down. For the towel on which they rested, I stood back up. I wanted the painting to bend and to breathe. Side note: the statuette is a wooden piece from Honduras that I had in my house when I was a child. It's now again in my possession and I hope to paint it much larger as the primary focus of a new piece.