Peaches on Plaid

Practicing my plaid.

Still life with Kiwi

Still on the full/empty theme: if "all things are understood by means of comparison", then can the painting be made to work with crowded forms and empty space? Could the crowding even go in the middle - dead center - with the space surrounding? Lots of ways to go with this one.

Radish Finale

This is the 1812 Overture of Radishes, with all canons blazing.

Radishes in Spotted Box

Haute couture radishes.

Small Bouquet

Today I played with edges until nothing worked and then I was really cranky and just wanted to get a showable painting, to hell with the fun. In this one, I am pleased to say I managed not to overwork the pear blossoms (very small white bits). Also, I was encouraged by my stumbling on a perfect almost invisible grey in my last flower painting and I worked it out again today to imprint it on my brain before I forget it. But of course, it was all different this time.

Ikea Bowls

I finally found a sheet of paper that is exactly the color I wanted, and it is under this set up:

a grey that is yellowish, but not brown and not red. I want to play with some color against this grey and see what I can do. It also has some big chunks of other stuff in in, gold foil and shreds of fiber sticking out, but it's crawl, walk, run in this rodeo. Also, I want to make things work abstractly using realistic forms, I find this idea so exciting....

Cyclamen 3

Large bristle brushes on this one, however I did buy a 1/4 inch bristle filbert which is very satisfying to use, easy to make Van Gogh sorts of marks with it. Not that I did that, but if I had wanted to, I could, and it feels good to have that in the arsenal.

California Lemons on Aluminum Foil

This was an interesting one to do -- sort of like riding a runaway horse. At the set up stage,I thought the strange pinky greys would be a good balance for the strong yellows and greens, warm and cool together and it would be subtle... well, I was really panic stricken for much of the painting of it, the forms and reflections were so similar and it didn't fall into place until the very end, and that was a surprise. I so much like that aluminum foil -- it is reflective but not shiny -- so ethereal.

Study of Forms

This gives me some relief from so much color.