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It’s time to harvest quinces. The painter Joan Cervelló Iborra, Cerve, every morning, after the walk with his wife, usually stops by the Canigó bar in Berga.
There, shortly after taking a seat at one of the outside tables, he abstracts himself from this world, takes out his watercolor tools and captures on the white paper the railing in front of the gas station, the trees on Passeig de la Pau or the motorcycle that He has left the occasional coffee stand aside.
This morning they gave him two quinces. He has put them on the table, as we can see in this report in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos, and, before turning them into aioli to spread on breakfast toast or quince for dessert, he has immortalized them in the first watercolor of the day.
As you can see, the quince presents the appearance of a bright golden-yellow knob when it is ripe. Its pulp is hard and very aromatic.
The quince is a small to medium-sized fruit tree, related to the apple and pear trees. And, as these images demonstrate, they serve as inspiration for a still life or still life watercolor.
