I watercolored this copy of happify's photo, but-- argh! --my oranges (or, in this case, clementines) always look like a cross between tomatoes and bagels. [Proof.]
I painted it for my father's neighbor as a thank-you for spending yesterday afternoon at the hospital with my father after he almost fainted.
Turns out my father (a Capricorn) is just a fainting goat--no actual medical problems.
Whew.
[NOTE, April 2017:
Actually, it was dehydration and signaled the start of his general decline...]
My father's neighbor is a professor of art history, so I'm a little chagrined, but I'm sending this to her anyway.
It's pretty and shows sincere effort at least, don't you think?
I painted it for my father's neighbor as a thank-you for spending yesterday afternoon at the hospital with my father after he almost fainted.
Turns out my father (a Capricorn) is just a fainting goat--no actual medical problems.
Whew.
[NOTE, April 2017:
Actually, it was dehydration and signaled the start of his general decline...]
My father's neighbor is a professor of art history, so I'm a little chagrined, but I'm sending this to her anyway.
It's pretty and shows sincere effort at least, don't you think?
You are crazy! They look exactly like clementines--they even have that flat lop-sidedness that clementines have. This is a very nice painting and there should be no "argh!" associated with it.
ReplyDeleteSo there! :-)
What Bink said - EXACTLY!
ReplyDeleteLook, if you don't want it, I'll take it. (I think I might have to stand behind Bink in that line, though.)
OK, bink & Crow, you're right---I went away for a few hours--mailed this painting to my father's neighbor (sorry, Crow)--came home just now and look at the scan and think, "Luminous orange fruit!"
ReplyDeleteI guess it was just my first knee-jerk reaction to see the problems. But, hey, if someone sent this to me, I'd be thrilled.
I did consider persimmons. It's warm and juicy and colorful and friendly.
ReplyDeletePERSIMMONS. PERSIMMONS ARE NICE.
ReplyDeleteFrex = Fresca
This is a beautiful painting, AND it looks like clementines/oranges in a bowl!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm with the yay-sayers. It's beautiful and I'm glad a step away let you see that beauty too--time/distance is lovely in its perspective!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Laura and Julia!
ReplyDeleteI might paint it again--I'd originally wanted to paint a simple abstraction of Julia's photo... Hm.
I have a hard time not overworking paintings.