Orange you glad it's Friday?

I painted this 8x8 quickly this morning.

My concept was to capture the richness of the orange, as well as the reflections bouncing off the little tin and the table top.

Also, I was playing the warms of the orange against the cool tones of the little tin.

Mildly successful.

I do not like the background color at all.  It's not a color, just dark.  I ran out of time and didn't really think through what I wanted.

Here's the progression being painted:

 First of all, I blocked in with a value study.  I am glad that I did that, because my original orange was kissing the right margin...definite no-no.


I started with the orange.  It seemed the most obvious place to start.  Actually, the easiest...












Next I moved onto the little tin box.

Lastly, I painted the table top and leaves.

The background you see here is the 'block in' I did in the very beginning.  I eventually painted in the not too attractive background you see in the painting at the top.