Original artwork description:

- Size: 12x12 inches (30x30 cm)
- Materials: Oil on canvas
- Technique: Classical glazing technique
- Style: Classical realism
- Originality: Original artwork, one of a kind, not a print
- Year: 2025
- Signature: Signed on front/back, certificate of authenticity included
- Framing: Unframed


DESCRIPTION

Some paintings capture not just objects but entire sensory memories. This intimate still life does exactly that - a glass cup brimming with fresh raspberries and a jar of ruby-red raspberry jam, arranged on embroidered cloth like a small altar to summer preserved.

On the left, a vintage glass cup on ornate base holds plump raspberries, each one painted with attention to those tiny drupelets that make up the berry's surface. You can almost taste their tartness, feel their delicate texture. The glass itself is a study in transparency and refraction - notice how it catches light, how you can see through to the berries within.

But it's the jam jar that steals the show. Sealed with checkered fabric tied with golden string - that universal sign of homemade preserves - it glows with deep raspberry red that seems to have captured summer sunlight and held it prisoner in glass. You can practically smell it, that intense berry perfume that fills kitchens during preserving season.

The checkered cloth topper - blue and red plaid with frayed edges - adds perfect domestic authenticity. This is grandmother's jam, made with hands that know the exact moment fruit becomes preserve, sealed with fabric saved from old shirts or curtains because nothing goes to waste in kitchens where tradition matters. That golden twine wrapped around the jar's neck isn't decoration; it's function rendered beautiful through repetition across generations.

The color palette sings: deep raspberry reds against pale gray background, turquoise embroidery providing cool counterpoint, golden twine and glass reflections adding warmth. Painted at intimate scale (30x30cm), this piece invites close looking, rewards attention with details like the subtle shadow the cup casts, the way light plays through different densities of red.

This is kitchen poetry, the kind of painting that speaks to anyone who's ever stood over a pot of bubbling fruit, who knows the satisfaction of jars lined up on shelves, who understands that preserving summer is both practical necessity and act of love. It's nostalgia you can see, taste, almost smell - tradition captured in glass and paint.


COLOR DISCLAIMER

Please note that colors in digital images may vary slightly from the actual artwork due to differences in screen settings, device calibration, and lighting conditions.
The full-frontal images of the artworks are captured with a professional camera in natural daylight to show the most accurate representation possible.


SHIPPING AND PACKAGING

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- I hope this piece brings warmth, inspiration, and harmony to your space.

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Materials used:

Oil

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