Horned Melon

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Portraits • Landscapes • Symbolic Still Life • Still Life • Monotype • Watercolor • Egg Tempera •

Feeling Series • Student’s Gallery • Drawing • Giclee Prints • Digital Reproduction • Purchase Paintings

MIDI sequence by A. Palazzani from Classical Music MIDI page www.classicalarchives.com

Muzio Clementi Gradus ad Parnassum Studio No. 65 in F No. 69 “Fuga” (permission pending)

Horned Melon Oil 8 x 10 $175

Although I have never tried to eat a horned melon I admire them in the super-markets and love their color and odd texture. They are beautiful on the inside but appear to have many seeds and look sort of like a green squash.

According to Wikipedia these fruits are grown in California and New Zealand but is native to the Kalahari Desert. The fruit is refreshing and tastes like bananas, limes and passion fruit, or so it says. It is used as a decoration most often but is found in deserts as a topping for cheesecake, flans, mousses, soufflés, sundaes and pavlova. It is also made into smoothies. None of the foregoing information inspires me to try it in my next dessert creation, but I am inspired to paint this interesting fruit which combines splendidly with blue accessories.