Sometimes I have to get my paints out and get creative! Tonight, my inspiration was our leafy vegetables that we had grown last year. I decided to use six different small canvases and highlight a different leafy vegetable on each canvas. I looked through my 2011 photos and picked six of our most beautiful veggies as the subjects for my paintings- romaine lettuce, pac choi, arugula, red chard, red leaf lettuce, and dinosaur kale.
I wasn't trying to paint in a photo realistic style, but more of a colorful impressionistic style. Being a perfectionist at times, I can get stuck working on my paintings for several weeks and even months just fixing an adjusting small details. I tried to approach these paintings with more of a "farming attitude" - which I consider to be an attitude of enthusiastic hard work but willingness to let go of small details and things that are out of our control. With that mindset, I was able to finish these paintings in just 4 hours! I think this is the first of many farm-inspired artwork I will be creating this year.
Now, these paintings proudly hang in our kitchen! If anyone else out there is interested in commissioning me to do paintings for you, shoot me an email!
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