Jam Jar Label, Strawberries

Oy vey, it photographed a bit dark.  This is for Farmgirl or Farm Girl, I will have to check.  I think this product is coming out in the gourmet food market in October.  Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

Geranium and Pear Paper

Another one of the old medicine bottle, blacklit.

Geranium and Tangerine

I got a painting done today AND I used the SLR camera and this shot is reasonably like the painting. I am not sure what I did right with the camera yet and don't know if I can do it again,

but I am encouraged.

Belligerent Eclaire

This was the strangest eclair I have ever seen (grocery store). It had a slab of extruded chocolate icing about 1/2 inch thick at the center of it, laid on top of the lid and weird yellow custard inside it. It was so horribly compelling, I have written a Haiku of sorts to honor it:

Belligerent Eclaire

Belligerent Eclaire

No longer shouting my name -

Fated: Painted. Eaten.

If anyone should comment on this, doesn't it seem right it should be in Haiku?

Cyclamen 2

I bought some grey gesso and have been experimenting with it. It is a premixed grey so it is very neutral, neither to the blue or red side or any other. Maybe I like it....so different from working on black. With the black you must incorporate those black bits into the overall -- I mean it has to be ok to show. With the grey, I think maybe a range of whites is easier to achieve. I don't know really yet, experience will tell. I am also trying out different brushes as I go, this one was a large flat, so it gives me some chop to the image. Not sure that cyclamen are good with chop though, they are so smooth and undulating. Also, I read on Catherine Kehoe's website, Powers of Observation.com, that color usually improves when it is mixed in large batches with a 4 inch pallet knife, so I am doing that instead of mixing with the brush. I think maybe this is right, because the mixed color batch has a greater chance of not being absorbed into the rest of the paint, it holds it own better. That is the most fabulous website. Fabulous!

Light Socket on Aluminum Foil

Yet another.

Light Socket and Banana

This old light socket is still holding my interest.