The Secret- day nine

And oranges make their appearance on the tree, it’s something of an event. I’ve been vaguely playing with the idea of painting a golden pear tree,  I like the uterine shape of the fruit, or an apple tree, but thought the painting would overload with biblical references. So oranges it is. Oranges, after all, are not the only fruit.

The cat’s butt is now lodged firmly in the corner of the canvas. But there’s always something new to fret about: I’m worried that the symmetry of the design will make the painting look too static, vaguely considering adding some kind of compositional element to add more movement. Perhaps a diagonal shape, perhaps some kind of curling ribbon blowing in the wind, perhaps have something falling from the sky (petals?) in a dynamic, curvey shape. (Trivia: a painter I once knew said that painting was like life: it started off ok and then you spent all your time trying to fix it.)