7"X5" Oil on board I should know better than to start a natural light painting at 4:30 pm on All-Saints Day (right after the clocks have gone back). The light had gone long before I finished.
I am a big apple fan and Mutsus are among my favourites. J. went out and bought three bushels today. They should last for a while if we can just find somewhere cool enough to keep them.
7"X5" Acrylic on board
A bright but cold day today. The temperature only got above 10 C for about an hour at midday. Fortunately I only had two sides of storm windows to paint, so I managed to finish. We will put them up next weekend and then I willl call it quits for the winter. Lots of yard work still to do though.
7″X5″ Oil on panel
My husband came home with these wonderful deep purple Red Delicious. I have never seen them that colour before so I had to try to paint one. I included a Royal Gala to show that there really isn’t anything wrong with your monitor. I did a WIP with this one, if you would like to see the pictures go here.
7″X5″ Oil on board
More of my husbands finds, the one in the back is a russet, but I have no idea what the other two are.
7″X5″ Oil on board
I spent far too much time on this one.
The teapot must be 100 years old and belonged to my grandfather. This is just a humble “two-cupper”, it has “Imperial Restaurant” engraved on the side and my grandfather used it all his life for his morning tea. I am ashamed to say that I was the one who dropped it so that the lid doesn’t fit properly any more.
My great-grandfather was part of the diaspora from Ticino in the late 19th century. Like so many of his countrymen, he was a restauranteur, the Imperial was one of three restaurants that he owned when my grandfather was growing up.
7″X5″ Oil on board
Quite often I quite like these until I see them on-screen. It is a little like that old trick of holding your work up to a mirror. If I wasn’t so pressed to post something every day I would come back to it tomorrow, but as it is it will have to stand. Next year I plan to be a little easier on myself and take the time to do things right. I might even try to do a weekly larger work.
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Scrumping: a wonderful English word meaning stealing apples, or at least taking apples from someone else’s trees. Apparently it comes from the Old English word scrump, meaning apple. Scrumpy is also a colloquial term for hard apple cider.
J. took his bicycle out yesterday along a trail which goes through some abandoned orchards. He came back with saddlebags laden with fruit, about 8-10 different varieties of apple including several different kinds of crabs. Some look just like bing cherries, small, dark and glossy.
The bowl is a lovely example of Canton Ware , sometimes called Cargo Ware or Ballast Ware.Amazingly, I couldn’t find a Wikipedia reference to this charming style of Chinese porcelain, so popular in North America in the nineteenth century.
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Red Delicious and Royal Gala.
Until a couple of months ago I don’t think I had ever painted a vegetable or a piece of fruit, certainly not in oils, but I am beginning to understand why food has been such a popular subject for still life painting for so many centuries.
First of all of course it is perfect for my daily paintings because it is always readily available, tends to be a little less complicated than flowers but has myriad
subtleties of tone and colour. Also there are the wonderful associations of taste and smell, I find that I can quite literally taste the fruit that I am painting and perhaps I am able sometimes able to depict that in paint. Can you paint a flavour? I would like to think so.
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4″X6″ Oil on board
Another postcard sized oil. One of my favourite apples, especially at this time of year.
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