An orange is just that an orange 4"x5"

Fruit, another still life. Painting a still life is somehow soothing. Every day I know what I am painting and how it should look at the end of the process. There it is right in front of me. If it does not work I know why - maybe I can fix it or maybe not but still I know where I am. As opposed to the abstracts which I do not know, as I am searching for something that I cannot see but only feel. Expressing feelings in line, shape and color in an authentic way is a wonderful challenge and exciting (when it works) but not reassuring or soothing. It's a good thing that I learn from both. Landscape and faces are somewhere in between.

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