Avocado for Cezanne

Avocados are one of my favourite fruit/veggies to paint.   When an avocado is ripe the flesh is rich and buttery... almost the same consistency as my oil paints right out of the tube!   This similarity makes it so much fun to use my palette knife to spread a thick layer of soft paint onto the canvas, to depict the flesh.
I had lunch with Cezanne today... (yes, I have a vivid imagination) via a lovely book about his life and art.

I noted that he often utilized deep aqua blue, rust and orange tones in his paintings... and since we were having lunch together I figured why not give him some credit for my afternoon painting?

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 10x10 oil on canvas