Green Apple Stacked

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I love clean color. I love reflected color. I love color that bounces and moves your eye around the piece.   I love color that captures temperature. I love color that pops and sings. Hooray!

Green Apple in Blue

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It has been a VERY slow painting start for me this new year, what with Christmas, and house guests, and colds and flu. So, today I HAD TO PAINT. I was like a wild woman dashing around the house trying to put together an interesting still life setup. All that I had in the way of fruit was this one green apple. I had a few decent sprigs left from a week old bouquet of flowers and my trusty blue bottle. I threw in some interesting shadows and reflections, and "wha la!" Happy and satisfied... the creative itch, scratched.

Apple Weighing In

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I am in love with this little kitchen scale. For some reason, when I was painting it,  I keep thinking that if it was human it would be very friendly. Funny what runs through your head when you are painting. Anyway, that's a bottle of Dom Perignon from the day I got engaged to my husband... almost 25 years ago. I think that makes it an antique!

Apple n Bottle on Scale

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 When I set up this still life, I was drawn to the interesting shadows cast by the light through the bottles. When I got painting, it was challenging to keep clear the subtle distinction between the bottles and their cast shadows. I'm  happy with the results .

Still Life to Scale

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This is an entirely new style in still life for me... the cluttered-piled-seemingly-mismatched-items-all-in-one-small-space kind of still life. My daughter, Edwina, set it up for us to paint the other day. She just got back from a semester abroad in Florence, Italy where she studied painting among other things. It is pretty cool when your child teaches you a trick or two... not to mention the thrill it is to share a similar passion.

Apple For Teacher

                                            
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So we are a few weeks into the new school year, and I figured right about now, some teacher, somewhere, needs an apple.... at least!