Orange Peel
as a painting medium
Orange
Citrus sinensis
Origins
“One of its first recorded regional names was the Persian narang, from which were derived the Spanish name, naranja, and the Portuguese, laranja. In some Caribbean and Latin American areas, the fruit is called naranja de China, China dulce, or simply China (pronounced cheena).
The orange is unknown in the wild state; is assumed to have originated in southern China, northeastern India, and perhaps southeastern Asia (formerly Indochina). It was carried to the Mediterranean area possibly by Italian traders after 1450 or by Portuguese navigators around 1500.
Spaniards undoubtedly introduced the sweet orange into South America and Mexico in the mid-1500's, and probably the French took it to Louisiana. It was from New Orleans that seeds were obtained and distributed in Florida about 1872 and many orange groves were established by grafting the sweet orange onto sour orange rootstocks”. Information acquired from https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/orange.html
Experimenting with supports/grounds for my painting/s
Foam Board
Plastic Cutting sheet UV light
The citrus wizard of Florida
Lue Gim Gong was a Chinese American horticulturist that saved the citrus industry in Florida in the early 1900’s by creating a frost-resistant orange that ripens in the summer avoiding the frost. He is known as the citrus wizard of Florida. All this while “The Chinese exclusion act” was in place.
“Lue met Fannie Burlingame, the daughter of a wealthy farmer and merchant. She immediately recognized his desire to learn and his natural talent with plants. He eventually came to live with her family and they helped him become an American citizen in 1877” (US department of Agriculture).
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/05/16/citrus-wizard-florida
Orange History and the relationship with Florida