Red Onions At Night
When Radishes Run Wild
Photo of Radish Still Life
Two more paintings (one from last night and one from today) . . . plus thought you might enjoy a photo of the actual still-life . . . did the red onions last night . . . true confessions . . . I didn't even take the one onion I have out of the refrigerator . . . messed around with faces from the fifties for about an hour . . .wiped everything off and painted the onions from memory(imagination) because I knew I could do a successful painting of them . . . after struggling with all the issues of the fifties paintings I was beginning to loose confidence . . . to much time spent wishing I could draw like Donna Howell Sickles, capture facial features like Kim Roberti and maintain color harmony like Carol Marine all added up to a bunch of work that is tight, muddy and "not me" . . . the best thing to do at that point is to go back to where you were most comfortable and satisfied with what you were doing . . . so here they are two paintings similar to the still-life pieces I was doing at the end of 2009 . . . improvement? changes? you bet . . . these are cleaner . . . not tight and fussy drawing and brighter, better color harmony than even a month ago . . . especially love the red and purple in the radish painting . . . anyway glad to be back painting "like I do" . . . and you all thought this was so easy and natural for us artists! . . . more soon!
When Radishes Run Wild
Photo of Radish Still Life
Two more paintings (one from last night and one from today) . . . plus thought you might enjoy a photo of the actual still-life . . . did the red onions last night . . . true confessions . . . I didn't even take the one onion I have out of the refrigerator . . . messed around with faces from the fifties for about an hour . . .wiped everything off and painted the onions from memory(imagination) because I knew I could do a successful painting of them . . . after struggling with all the issues of the fifties paintings I was beginning to loose confidence . . . to much time spent wishing I could draw like Donna Howell Sickles, capture facial features like Kim Roberti and maintain color harmony like Carol Marine all added up to a bunch of work that is tight, muddy and "not me" . . . the best thing to do at that point is to go back to where you were most comfortable and satisfied with what you were doing . . . so here they are two paintings similar to the still-life pieces I was doing at the end of 2009 . . . improvement? changes? you bet . . . these are cleaner . . . not tight and fussy drawing and brighter, better color harmony than even a month ago . . . especially love the red and purple in the radish painting . . . anyway glad to be back painting "like I do" . . . and you all thought this was so easy and natural for us artists! . . . more soon!
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