Live Fruit Bowl
One of my favorite images in fine art is the still life fruit bowl. It’s colorful and attractive. It is an excellent academic exercise and great practice for the budding artist. The image is very pleasing to the human eye. While I am not much of a painter, I do appreciate beauty in art and nature. My way to create a masterpiece is to fill a pretty bowl of real fruit and keep it on the dining room table. It is visually stimulating and it also keeps my family eating healthy snacks.
The first thing I do is to select a showy vessel or container that is large enough to hold plenty of fruit. Variety of color and texture is important for the art piece. Variety of fruit is important for the diet. The container should be large enough to hold about eight pounds of fresh fruit. When the fruit becomes room temperature, another dimension of the art piece comes alive because the aroma of the fruit is very enticing to hungry family members. Our noses are tickled and our taste buds are satisfied. When the fruit is all eaten and the art piece is not attractive, it’s time to start over again with more fruit. Keeping a fruit bowl is a great way to stay happy and healthy in the winter.