Stages in an oil painting - 6. The final cut.

Can you see these anaemic lemons?

I have spent a lot of time trying to make them look convincing, adding paint, wiping it off again, adding more paint and the picture below shows how I finally left them: still, perhaps, not dark enough in the shadow areas....

The apple in this final version, I can see now, is less apple-like than before. It has lost its dark red apply hue and turned amber. Ah well.

The ladle is ok.... but that apple....