Still Life Pear Palooza!

Pear Reflections, 8 x 10, 95.00

I recently had a commission to do 3 still life pears. I really enjoyed it-but then I could not stop! I have been doing pears for days now! I was framing this one to take to a gallery, and realized that I loved how “fresh” and free this one felt. I did this right after completing a workshop with fantastic acrylic artist Patti Mollica. She had us painting “under the gun” if you will. Where we would have either limited strokes (such as 25 strokes to finish an entire painting) or 5, 10 or 15 minutes to do a painting. Now for me, that is just a joke. I have officially nominated myself as the “slowest painter ever”. So, while I did not finish many paintings, it did help to “free me up” a good bit. I did not agonize quite as much about the brush size, brush type, brush stroke, color, warm or cool of that color, etc. Each painting there are probably 1,000 questions I ask myself or decisions to make (certainly on the larger canvases). In this painting, a lot of the thinking was on vacation-and really the instinct seemed to kick in. It was a nice feeling..and I hope to have it again some day!! 🙂

Beth