Sanguielli are delicious blood red oranges grown here in Sicily. Inside the orange flesh is tinged crimson and the juice is a lovely pinky red.
I used some of the juice to paint the orange below and to splash the page of my sketchbook (yes I got carried away!) I loved the mixtures of reds, oranges and pinks and the sharp citrus smell while I painted.
18 comments:
Absolutely delicious!! :)
oh so juicy colors! beautiful sketches!
So fabulous that you used the actual juice as part of your gorgeous painting!
Gorgeous. It's making my mouth water. :-)
Great work Cathy love the idea of using the juices, HK is just too humid to try anything like that
Wow, delicious - I can taste it! Love the painterly enthusiasm you describe! Beautifully done.
i can almost fell the smell and the taste. congrats.
Wow, that is fantastic that you used the juice - the sketchbook must smell as lovely as when you were painting. The colour is wonderful. Amazingly intense. I wonder if it would fade.
The paintings themselves are superb. I love the splashes and the drip.
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Thanks for the comments.
The juice took ages to dry and remained a bit sticky. Not sure if it's lightfast though!
My mouth is watering!
I haven't had a blood orange for years - we used to have them regularly when I was litlle - your wonderful painting makes me want one NOW!!
What a lovely idea to use the juice in the painting! It's beautiful and luscious looking! nancy
hmmmmmm looks mouthwatering! =) definitely a super idea to use natural colors and the result is simply realistic and delicious!
I could almost smell these beauties from your wonderful painting!! Juicy, gorgeous colors!!
I love blood oranges, the way they look and the way they taste. You've got a beautiful painting here!
Oh, I felt the smell of the sanguinella while I looked at your painting! Lovely.
Very creative! Of course, the stickiness is a downside ... but still!
Okay...it almost sounds like I'm the only one that has never tried a blood orange! It looks delicious and aside from the stickiness, I think it was a wonderful experiment to use the juice as paint. Lovely page! Hope it doesn't later attract ants!
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