Kick in the Butt

Have just not been in the mood to paint lately. Now I need to decide if I want to hang more paintings at the Nines Restaurant or not. Rotation occurs Monday. Do I want to part with any more paintings I have at home? Guess that is the difference betwixt a hobbyist and a painter. I gave away three paintings this month. Two lighthouses and one rooster. Better start painting to fill the coffer.

I could add one or two paintings to my online gallery at Imagekind.com. Good idea. Thanks.

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Soroptimist Sponsored Art Show

Our dog, Suzy, has been helping me get ready for a local art show, (A Taste of May), that will take place tomorrow. It is sponsored by the Rio Vista branch of Soroptimist International and will be held at the The Dutra Museum.

I painted the following three pieces during the past several months. The rooster is a close replica of a rooster I completed in watercolor last year.


Requested by someone who liked the watercolor.

The pears were painted to represent the large agricultural influence pears have in the California Delta.


"A Pair"

The still-lifes were done after we visited the Museum of the Orangery in Paris last March. After viewing the amazing works of such artists as Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and Laurencin, I was reminded that a pear doesn't need to have a curvaceous shape.


"Blue Pear" or "Pear On Table" or "Pear and Window"

So, the "Blue Pear". It will be interesting to see how it is received at the show.

I need to free up my "ambiguous" style and find something different. One day.

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