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| Only Organic, 10" x 12 1/2"; watercolor |
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| my reference photograph |
months, I just wipe them out when Honey brings the "only organic" vegetables home from the market. But in the summer is when I deep clean them in the garden with my garden hose on the jet stream setting. In the summer, cleaning the bins is fun. In the winter, a wipe and a polish is all I can muster.
I don't care if we eat "only organic" or not. I prefer inorganic because organic spoils just minutes home from the market. Now that I don't do the marketing, organic is just fine.
What attracted me to this subject was the plastic storage bags filled with veggies one atop the other. To get a better drawing, I felt a strong need for masking medium--but not strong enough to get me to use it. I just went at this painting in my normal free handed way. I'm noticing I'm standing more when working with watercolors. Seated is just too seated. Rigamortis sets in.
Hello Linda, congratulations for this wonderful work. Your interpretation could not be better. I really admire the way you synthesize the reality, in a personal and modern way....and, in my opinion, only a true artist can do this. Ciao!
ReplyDeleteTito, you flatter me. I so admire traditional watercolorists who know what they are doing. I sense what should be done, but prefer to sidestep the difficulties. You, on the other hand, take them right on and produce beautiful work with wonderful linear definitions.
Deletelinda like the freshness of this and your colourful brushstrokes .
ReplyDeleteThank you Jane. Painting, to me, is all about pure color and leaving the mark of the brush. Your very fine work makes mine pale by comparison.
DeleteComposition Delicious, yes, I love that watercolor with delicious colors, you get a daily take of art. Greetings.
ReplyDeleteLeovi thank you. I love your delicious colors too. I am very curious about your process.
DeleteHi again Linda. I appreciate very much your watercolor. It's so fresh and each color is in its right place. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda.
Thank you for coming to visit Sonia. And thank you for your comment. I added your lovely robin, so different from the American robin,to my blog list. Other Northerners will be interested. Your watercolors have a lovely touch.
DeleteI knew what it was!!! I only said armchair because ...mumble mumble ... well it certainly is scrumptious now its done, the colours really zing, love it!
ReplyDeleteThought for the day - A Clean Bin is better than a has-bin!
We're laughing in Michigan John. I do enjoy your sense of humor. Not much to say about a frig bin, other than it's colorful AND SO MUCH MORE FUN TO PAINT THAN CLEAN--unless you're doing it with a hose. There's a delightful laugh to be had with a garden hose, a hot summer's day and a frig bin: they spray back at you.
DeleteI always admire your bold fresh colors, and I agree with you, standing is much better when you do watercolor.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, I think too colorful Jane when I look around. But then this designer knows paint is about color. I like to "push it" by punching it up. I also like punching up the contrasts and firmly believe in the tried and true adage of using a gray mixed from all the main characters as the connective. I think I just told you my painting philosophy.
DeleteLinda, I do love your bright colors and bold painting, and your subject matter!! Who'd have thought??? :)
ReplyDeleteKathryn, the person who thought photograph and paint the vegetable bin
Deletein her refrigerator would always rather paint it, than clean it. Also a person who is slightly nuts. I opened the frig took a look in the bin and instead of pulling the drawer out, I photographed it, and painted it--a much more enjoyable task.
I like colors running into one another and that's what I saw when I looked in the drawer, a subject I like to paint that really has nothing to do with what it is--just with how the colors are interacting.
Love this...it is a great subject..vegtables in a drawer. I am a big fan of the "everyday" subject. You did a perfect job of it. I see boldness in your work..we can never sit! lol!
ReplyDeleteThanks Celeste. "They" say to paint what you know. I know the lowly fridge bin very well. LOL.
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