Horse Chestnut Fruit and Seed Drawing and Painting III

'Horse Chestnut Fruit and Seed Drawing and Painting III' - A4 fine art print.

....so many things about these fruits and seeds make me want to try to draw and paint them....the tremendous sense of three-dimensions....a suggestion of movement in the fruit falling further open to reveal the seed....the roundness of the cavity left behind by the seed....the roundness of the seed itself....the over ripeness of the skin....the contrast between the textures of skin flesh and seed....the deep tone and brown of the seed echoed in deep tonal and brown markings on the skin and flesh....