8 x 10" Noni Painting in Oils

The baby is safely here and I was too busy to paint for a few days. After doing some reading on oil painting techniques, along with watching some YouTube videos, I ditched my acrylics again and painted a little 8 x 10" painting this morning:

I was originally going to paint some potatoes but my wife and my daughter both told me that was "way too boring."

I put the potatoes away, went for a walk down to a noni tree growing in our neighborhood, then picked a fruit and a few leaves.

Though the ripe fruit taste like bad cheese, black pepper and vomit, the leaves actually make a very nice tea when steeped in boiling water.

The fruit are also fun to paint. They look very alien.