Sunday, September 30, 2012

Still Life, Tomatoes

Shades of Red, 6x8 Oil on Canvas/Panel Sold















The tomatoes are lush and plentiful this year and ripening madly in shades of greens, green-orange, orange, orange-red and deep rich reds. Unlike the perfect round specimens from the store homegrown tomatoes are alive with flavour and lumpy with character. Their colour and shape with it's lumps and bumps are just meant to be painted.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Sunflowers and Red Wing Black Bird

Secrets of a Fall Garden 16x20 Oil on Canvas
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This time of year is a sensory smorgasbord with geese calling their way south, birds feasting on berries, crisp apples right off the tree, yellow sunflowers, fields with golden swaths, and the crunchy sound and rich smell of fallen leaves. As if those aren’t reasons enough to love fall there’s a particularly soft and mellow quality to the light. It’s a golden colour that infuses everything with it’s soft warm hue.