Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Been feeling quite beige...

Well, after looking in absolutely every spot I could think of and still not finding the photo I was searching for yesterday, I decided to quit looking and just let it 'come to me.' Sometimes that will happen; I'll quit looking and then will suddenly remember where I put it, when I'm thinking of something completely unrelated.

So, since I have been feeling quite beige lately, I decide to paint something colorful yesterday. I had bought the three most colorful pears at the market to take to use as a still-life when I painted with the Alzheimer's patients last week. So I decided I would paint them myself. I had set them on the top of my flat-top stove, which is black, and it made such lovely reflections, I just used that for my set-up. The painting is in oil on canvas, and is 9"x12". I don't know what it is about pears that makes me want to paint and weave them lately, except maybe just that they are not beige!

4 comments:

Caroline said...

Happy to have found your blog, which is lovely! Beautiful painting - I will look forward to seeing the weaving. Looks like a fascinating process - is it difficult?

K Spoering said...

No difficult, but quite time-consuming!

Tommye McClure Scanlin said...

wonderful pear painting... next medium sized tapestry, maybe?!
Tommye

K Spoering said...

Hmmm, I really hadn't thought of weaving this one. I have a possible commission coming up, so will have to see how that goes before I warp for anything else. Maybe, though...

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