In March 2008 I made the suprising discovery that I had a little artistic talent which had been lying dormant all my life. I started with simple still life subjects but as time went on I progressed to more complex subjects. The only medium I paint in is pastels which I love. They do tend to be messy but I love the immediacy of the work, involving no mixing with turps or water, just pure pigment directly applied and mixed right there on the paper. Carol Conrad
Sunday, December 20, 2009
This is totally different from the previous picture. Instead of impressionist I wanted to go very realistic and I started on the grapes but very quickly realized that the crystal bowl they were sitting in was completely beyond my ability to paint..... so I had to find another bowl, but the only one I could find that seemed the least bit suitable was this one, which was a long distance view on a table with other things. However, I used it and then had to find a suitable surface to put the bowl and the grapes on!!! So I used this table and cloth from another picture, but had to guess at where the shadow would go! So, to sum up, this is from three different photographs, but I was reasonably happy with the end result.
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