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Hey there!
The colors are just starting here in Honor... Should be a pretty drive down to Lake Orion on Saturday, to pick up the unsold paintings from the show. Looking forward to visiting with my buddies again too!
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Hot Off the Easel!
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Trillium
6.5 x 6.5
acrylic collage
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Idea Spark-lers
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Groceries are not just for eating....
There is a terrific small seasonal market about 15 minutes from the house called The Market Basket. (Right next door to the Cherry Hut) There's always bushels of seasonal fruit and veggies outside the store to entice you to stop. (They also happen to have the best shortcake biscuits)
 I stopped yesterday to check out their selection of gourds and pumpkins and I wasn't disappointed. I also got a couple branches of bittersweet! Beautiful stuff.
So last night, in my sketchbook... I decided to lay out some compositions using my purchased bounty.
This first one, I began with a red pencil and did a blind contour drawing, then corrected the wonky lines and filled in with my small watercolor kit and more colored pencil work. Kind of fun... just a warm up, and the yellow gourd looks like a pear. oops.
In sketch #2 I've adjusted the arrangement and added a crow. I've never painted a crow, and will have to look at some reference images to make it more crow-like, but this is just a sketch. I'm just trying play around with placement and composition and brain storming.
I like this idea a bit better... Not the colors... but the idea. Note that I've grown the yellow "pear" gourd a little larger. I think I'll run with this idea in an acrylic painting or acrylic collage. It just might be the painting for next week!
So, have a good look at your groceries when you bring them home. Even if you didn't purchase just for painting, like I did... You might find some interesting still life subjects.
Now, I'm off to look for crows....
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