#63 3/20/19 Yellow Bananas

These are the Michigan Bananas, not the more recent Chiquita Bananas, with the perspective from the back-side.  The canvas was painted lightly with some sort of dark orange....oil paint, not acrylic.  The book I'm in now (The Painting Course, etc) made a statement that casts doubt on the wisdom of putting down an acrylic paint prior to covering it with an oil paint, especially a "thick" layer of acrylic paint...that at an undisclosed time in the future the oil paint will fall off the acrylic paint.  But aren't all canvases treated with an acrylic gesso specifically so the oil paint has something to cling to?  Let me google that......yeah, there's a lot of conflicting information out there.  They all agree however on this: don't put acrylic paint on top of oil paint.  Wikipedia says that Gesso is made from "a mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit-skin glue), chalk, and white pigment."  My jar of Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso says "Acrylic Polymer Emulsion" on the label, so I'm thinking the local rabbits were safe while this product was made.  In the directions part of the label it says "for acrylic, oil, pastels and other paint media".  I think we're fine.  Plus, the label says it was made in France, oui, tres manifique!