Mug Shot 4 and Bowl of Cherries

This guy seemed very self possessed to me, very cool. Maybe a Scot, and they are both cool and wicked. He actually had on a plaid shirt, which I took as a sign he should be chosen. Some of the counties (I am currently working Florida) have everybody wear the same thing, sometimes hunter orange, sometimes a blue scrub shirt. One wraps all of them up in a black plastic bib, like a hefty bag, so all you see is the head. I might write them and complain.

The study was not so easy today, but I am posting it anyway and not looking back.

Plastic Bowl Number 9

These are crab apples with actual leaves attached!

Nearing the end - I have learned a lot with this. Three or four in I thought, big mistake, boring, tedious, etc., but it has been good. One of the biggest things is: accurate drawing is only necessary if your particular system of logic in your painting requires it. (my opinion) If the visual logic is inconsistent, the integrity is violated, and things fall apart. For me in my work, accurate drawing is necessary, so I have to learn it. But I delight in artwork that does not operate with that same logic and do not find it the lesser. Another thing: It's not about the bowl, although the ability to make the bowl look like plastic is a good skill to have up your sleeve. Another example of technique always taking a back seat to the overall statement of the painting. And another thing: when you do things over and over (changing a few things here and there to keep from going barking mad) you learn extra things that sneak in in spite of a laser focus on one thing, here the arc of the lip. Other pieces of information eventually shift together into a whole that passes into your understanding somehow when you aren't even trying. Isn't that great?

Figs on Green Plate

One more run for the figs. I am still using a pretty large round brush and mostly it feels right. It does not leave a chop in the paint like the bright -- but I do like the chop. I have to think about it. I'm not sure I want to see too much evidence of the brush, but neither do I want it smooth. More testing necessary.

Four Figs

I bought 5, but one was weeping and so had to be eaten with honey and gorgonzola.