Title: Mandarins
Artist: Lois DeWitt
Medium: Colored pencil on paper
Dimensions: 11" x 12"
Description
Mandarins is a richly textured still-life study of a woven basket overflowing with fresh fruit. Through heavily layered colored pencil, Lois captures the mandarins’ rounded forms with warm amber gradients, golden highlights, and subtle variations in skin texture. The fruit rests within an intricately rendered wicker basket, where dense cross-hatching and deep brown shadows define the overlapping reeds. A sharply angled background divides the composition into a stippled teal surface and a clean light-gray plane, creating a striking contrast between organic warmth and geometric structure. Together, the luminous fruit, meticulous basket patterning, and bold background planes give the work depth, clarity, and a sophisticated sense of balance.
This colored pencil drawing by Lois DeWitt demonstrates a wonderful command of form, repetitive texture, and shifting geometric planes
