Peppers

Karyn Robinson, Gilbert, Arizona.

In my humble opinion the pepper is the most handsome vegetable. (Actually it's technically a fruit since it... more

by Karyn Robinson

Original - Sold

Price

$100

Dimensions

10.000 x 8.000 inches

Title

Peppers

Artist

Karyn Robinson

Medium

Painting - Acrylic

Description

Karyn Robinson, Gilbert, Arizona.

In my humble opinion the pepper is the most handsome vegetable. (Actually it's technically a fruit since it contains seeds.)

I love their glossy skins, the variations of color and shape. They're not boring like an orange, they have character. I also happen to think they are delicious and I use them a lot in cooking and in salads.

So it's no surprise that I wanted to paint this picture and celebrate the humble pepper.

From Wikipedia:

The color can be green, red, yellow, orange and more rarely, brown, white, rainbow (between stages of ripening) lavender and dark purple, depending on the variety of pepper. Most typically, unripe fruit are green or, less commonly, pale yellow or purple. One variety, Permagreen, maintains its green color even when fully ripe. Some red, yellow, and orange peppers come from different seeds and are different cultivars of pepper. Some red peppers are simply ripened green peppers.[6] Green peppers are less sweet and slightly more bitter than yellow or orange peppers, with red bell peppers being the sweetest. The taste of ripe peppers can also vary with growing conditions and post-harvest storage treatment; the sweetest are fruit allowed to ripen fully on the plant in full sunshine, while fruit harvested green and after-ripened in storage are less sweet.

Uploaded

April 26th, 2014