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| Bottles and pears |
My January exhibition
was time consuming to manage and left me little painting time. Once it was finished I had a real urge to paint. The exhibition space influenced the sizes of the canvases I chose as I saw the paintings hanging in the cafe as I bought
them: long and square canvases with a 61cm (24") edge.
What fits on long canvases? Well, bottles for one
thing; the green (wine) and pink (bubbly) bottles from the exhibition
opening party which happened to be still standing on the bench.
I added green pears and wine glasses but it took
me a long time and many trials to make the painting interesting.
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| Progress: bottles and pears |
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| Liquid in the glasses (detail) |
Finally, as I was about
to paint the whole canvas over, I sat my filled wine glass beside the bottles and noticed
the interesting pattern made by the liquid in the glass.
I
added some wine to the second glass and had fun capturing the
patterns in paint.
In the meantime the pears had turned a lovely golden shade of yellow, much too beautiful to discard (ie eat) without trying to paint them anew.
I put them in
a bowl and immediately started on a second painting.
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| Bottles and pears 2 (30.5 x 61 cm) |
This second painting was finished in no time and I like it better than the first.
I don't know
whether it was easy to paint because of the time I had already
invested in the first painting or whether the autumnal colour combination made it more inspiring and therefore easier to paint.
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| Recent pictures on the wall |
