Lemon Slices

Lemon slices
Oil  8"x 10"
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Day 2 of my lemon paintings.  For this piece I used an old, place mat for the green.  I wanted to compare the green from this one with the purple from yesterday.  

Make Lemonade

Make Lemonade
Oil  8" x 10"
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I love Costco.  I really do.  But, sometimes we end up with way too many fruits and vegetables.  We try to eat them all and consequently feel pretty healthy.  But, sometimes it's hard to eat all of them.  It's only just the two of us.  So, when you have too many lemons, you usually make lemonade.  Or, in my case, you paint lemons!

I painted lemons for several days.  for this piece I used cool, purple (the complement of yellow) for the  shadows.  In a plein air painting you usually have warm light/cool shadows.  With a still life, it depends on what light bulbs you use when setting up your still life.  Or what kind of natural light you have coming in from your windows.

Summer Hollyhocks

Summer Hollyhocks
plein air oil  10" x 8"
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It's wonderful to be outside in the summer.  I love the warmth, the light, the smells.  We have lots of flowers in our backyard so the smells are fragrant.  One of our flowers is the hollyhock.  We have both white and pink.  I think many people love hollyhocks because we are reminded of our youth, our parents and grandparents gardens. For the gardener hollyhocks add a lot to a garden as they can grow up to 9 feet.  This adds a great vertical element to a yard.

However, hollyhocks are a short lived perennial.  They only live 2 or 3 seasons.  But, because they reseed themselves usually you will have hollyhocks every year.  The south side of our yard didn't get many hollyhocks this year.  I'm not sure why they didn't reseed.  Next spring,  just after our last frost I'll throw out some seeds from this years plants, and maybe add some fresh top soil.

Fresh Pineapple

Fresh Pineapple
Oil  8" x 10"
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I love fresh, ripe, juicy pineapples.  Cutting them up is rather messy, but so worth it!

All families have "stories", tales and legends, exaggerations that have become truth over the generations.  One of my family ancestors is (was) Steven Dole.  Not the one who headed to Hawaii and raised pineapples, but the cousin/brother who stayed behind.  Oh well, I still like pineapples;  even Dole pineapples from Hawaii!!