Paul cezanne gcse sketchbook

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Looking at Cezanne

Avocados are one of my favourite fruit/veggies to paint. When an avocado is ripe the flesh is rich and buttery... almost the same consistency as my oil paints right out of the tube! This similarity makes it so much fun to use my palette knife to spread a thick layer of soft paint onto the canvas, to depict the flesh. I had lunch with Cezanne today... (yes, I have a vivid imagination) via a lovely book about his life and art. I noted that he often utilized deep aqua blue, rust and orange…

Pyramid of Skulls - Cezanne