Cherries on a French Cloth

"Bing Cherries"

5"x 7" Oil on gessoed panel.

This painting was all about the paint! Such joy in pushing around all those reds and grays and pinks and blues....

I've had little time in the studio so this piece spent the better part of a week half completed in the freezer along with my palette. I'm still amazed that all the paint stayed wet for me. I just wonder what the long term effect on the paint will be fifty years from now with all the frozen and thawed paintings around. Will we find that the paint turns green or something?

Peach, Crock and Cherries - SOLD

"Hide and Seek"

5"x 7" Oil on gessoed panel.

It is that time to paint cherries again. I love to eat them and I love to paint them. I don't love to photograph them - they seem so dull on the screen. The color of the deep red really pops and looks good enough to eat in the original. Happy summer and the Forth of July greetings from Hotlanta!