… more metallic surfaces. Adding colors is purely fun.
…practice
still life
Wee bowls
My step-mom, Betty, was a potter. People now say ‘ceramicist’, but I will use the term she used. She made many useful items, including all of the dishes we used every day. She also made decorative things, vases, and even a full chess set once! No other potter I had seen the work of carved into their pots the way she did. She made many interesting patterns.
Here are a couple of tiny paintings I did to record my step-mom’s sweet little bowls.
metallic surfaces
Stainless steel-yikes! This one actually metal. I was hesitant to try it, definitely fine over an old painting. ‘You have to start somewhere department’ as my mother might have said.
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Multi-color glass balls
More reflecting surfaces. I looked all over for plain red & green ornaments, found none except some medium red ones in a string. Most are now designer colors, i saw olive greens(!), rose & mauve, gently golds, even some brown ones!
Vegetable entertainment
I’ve been pressing my fruits and vegetables into service in the interest of getting frequent painting warm ups. These slim but fiery red peppers are deceptively compact, they deliver a powerful heat, and the white pepper is new to me. The red ones might be Thai peppers. White = sweet pepper, or maybe a bell? I’ll find out how hot is is when I slice it for cooking!
Since I have a light bulb with changing colors, just for fun I thought to try doing one scene with these same vegetables with different color cast shadows. There seems to be no color in my palette which matches either of the cast shadows, or maybe I just don’t know how to do that yet. If you have any insights, please share them!
Micaela Marsden 