I love to paint outside and with my kids. The day I painted this, it was a beautiful spring day, my garden was in full bloom and I needed to get outside. I put the trestle tables in the garden, set up my son to paint, cranked up the music and painted 3 artworks using the same technique but with very different results.

All 3 canvases have:

* oil pastel shapes in 2 or more colurs

* collage from my own gelli printed paper

* 3 acrylic colours similar to the colours of the collage painted with a palette knife

* finger painted dots

* high flow acrylics dripped down them

* marks, outlines or patterns drawn with posca pens.

* extra details drawn on the edges with poscas

I absolutely love how different all three turned out.

When I made this I did not have pears in mind at all!

After the layers of paint, I couldn't unsee them, so pears they became!

I very rarely paint food but I really like this one.