Caroline had a still life picture of a fruit bowl, Nicholson would pick out and separate the main shapes. Caroline drew the out line in Sepia ink with a small brush giving harder lines to give interest. She started by ‘seeing’ a star shape in the centre of the orange, she overlapped the grapes to give a better composition, she then added the bananas and apple.

Nicholson liked warm colours to the foreground and cold to the background, he loved to add texture and flicked paint to add more interest.
Using ultra marine, yellow ochre, adding a red to make various shades of grey.

Adding a blue centre star to the orange draws the eye, then adding yellow on top of the orange paint. Lovely yellow bananas outlined with green, turquoise grapes carefully leaving a dash of white to give shine, muted apple, red and green yellow for light.

Caroline carried the orange carefully through the the background, but used the muted greys to outline making sure there were no hard lines.
