Here is a painting of some clementines in a crystal bowl. I decided to go a little abstract with the reflected light on the crystal facets and it ended up reminding me of sunrays, which inspired the title.
What
attracted me to this scene was the sparkle and glow of the sunlight being
reflected through the crystal and onto the clementines and the counter. I decided to make it a bit more abstract to
really push the dots of colour in the bowl as well as in the shadows.
I was passing through my kitchen one cold
January day and was stopped in my tracks by the winter sun bathing these
clementine beauties in an orange-golden glow and sending the crystal reflections
dancing across the island counter. The
challenge of capturing the crystal and the reflected oranges made this a
particularly fun painting to do.