High Tea Homage still life with kettle hydrangea peals onions grapes and plum
Oil on Paper 9 inches x 12 inches $200.00 USD Sold
I cant tell you how much I love making sets with my artist girlfriends. I suppose it’s the type of grown-up version of little girls playing tea-time or dress-up. We go scouring thrift shops for pretty little finds to take home. Then we arrange, playing with color, repeating patterns, and of course directing light. From the outside it looks like a mess with boxes and draped fabrics, clip-on lights, and a pile of discarded items we chose to cut from the scene. But you can’t see all that mess in the resulting paintings, it’s all elegance and sophistication in the art. And I adore this contrast, this knowing I have behind the scenes, and being able to choose what I’ll show and what I won’t. I become the author of the story.
Here is a little video of our girl play-time for a different still-life painting.
PS: The little girl in the video is Karen’s daughter Rachel. She passed away this year from an excruciating battle with cancer. Going through my oil paintings reminds me how she was always there in the background, usually setting up her own still life’s to paint herself. I miss you Rachel!
I cant tell you how much I love making sets with my artist girlfriends. I suppose it’s the type of grown-up version of little girls playing tea-time or dress-up. We go scouring thrift shops for pretty little finds to take home. Then we arrange, playing with color, repeating patterns, and of course directing light. From the outside it looks like a mess with boxes and draped fabrics, clip-on lights, and a pile of discarded items we chose to cut from the scene. But you can’t see all that mess in the resulting paintings, it’s all elegance and sophistication in the art. And I adore this contrast, this knowing I have behind the scenes, and being able to choose what I’ll show and what I won’t. I become the author of the story.
Here is a little video of our girl play-time for a different still-life painting.
PS: The little girl in the video is Karen’s daughter Rachel. She passed away this year from an excruciating battle with cancer. Going through my oil paintings reminds me how she was always there in the background, usually setting up her own still life’s to paint herself. I miss you Rachel!