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Tomatoes
8"X6" Oil on board
Another glorious day. I sat out on the porch again but this time attempted a still life. I used to do a lot of these food paintings but they have lost their flavour for me :-).
We don't have any local tomatoes yet, these are the hot-house variety. My plants are big and very healthy, so I should have some of my own before long.
Bushels
6"X4" Gouache on paper
My muse has deserted me. I haven't been able to do so much as a sketch all week. The fact that I am in a race against time to finish painting my house (as in gallons, 3in brushes and ladders, not tubes, brights and easels) before the weather puts an end to my efforts for another year, drove me to try something different today. I don't use gouache much and I am not good at leaving well enough alone. I try so hard to keep things loose but only the constraint of time forced me to finish this one quickly.
Tomatoes, bushels of them keep on appearing on my back patio. If we all pitch in we can usually process a bushel in under half an hour. This fills a 20 litre pot which then needs to be boiled down for several hours, stirring all the time. When the sauce has reached the right consistency (i.e. it can't be boiled down any further without catching on the bottom of the pot) it is cooled, bagged and frozen. we usually do 15-20 bushels each year and this keeps us in sauce until next tomato season.
Kumato
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7″X5″ Oil on board
My husband came home with these strange brown tomatoes that call themselves “Kumatoes”. I have no idea why. I will let you know what they taste like.
Tomato Night
5″X7″ Acrylic on board
I have talked a lot about the tomatoes that we process every year, I thought it was time to immortalize the ritual with a painting. We are about halfway through the 14 bushels we plan to freeze this year and here are my boys hard at work last night. I took half a dozen pictures before they got fed up with me and I chose this one as having the best composition.
This is quite a departure for me, I have very little experience with acrylics and I think this is the first time I have ever done a figure study with them. My old friend Georgina, a very accomplished artist herself, encouraged me to give them another go. I bought myself a “Stay-wet” palette today and I must say it does help, although I do miss the buttery texture of oils, and I am used to being able to paint wet-in-wet. I will definitely persevere though.
Field Tomato ACEO
3.5″X2.5″ Oil on paper
What a frantic time of year this is, both at home and at work. There seems to be a mad scramble to get everything done that we hoped to do over the summer. The baskets of tomatoes are waiting for attention, it is hard to find the time to paint. This isn’t a good photo, there is a fleck of something on the painting that isn’t there anymore. I can’t find the time to re-photograph it now, maybe later.
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Tomatoes on a Green Cloth
7″X5″ Oil on board
Well I guess the summer is, to all intents and purposes, over. Tomorrow is Labour Day (as opposed to Labor Day which they celebrate south of the border) and on Tuesday the kids go back to school. Tomatoes are still dominating my life at the moment, we have processed five bushels so far, we have about nine to go. We mostly use the romas for processing but we always have lots of these field tomatoes around too, to eat with bread and cheese.
I like the coloured backgrounds, this is an old tablecloth that belonged to my mother-in-law, it has an interesting almost abstract pattern.
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Roma ACEO
3.5″X2.5″ Oil on paper
Basil & Tomato
7″X5″ Oil on board
This was lunch, I decided to prepare it a little early so that I could paint it first. The boys are all at a baseball tournament (the last of the year) so I could use the kitchen , which i s actually my favourite place to paint, with lovely light, lots of room and easy cleanup. I don’t seem to be doing as well with the insides of fruit and veg as I do with the outsides. I guess that means I need more practice.
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Garlic and Tomatoes
7″X5″ Oil on board
Garlic and tomatoes, a match made in heaven. I love tomato season, what can be better than a cheese and tomato sandwich with a little grating of black pepper?
We have two bushels of “romas” to process tonight. We have a hand-cranked tomato processor which we all take a hand at turning, we then cook the pulp down for a while to thicken it and freeze it in bags. Before the season is over we will probably do about 12-14 bushels. That should keep us in tomato sauce all year.
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