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Tomatoes.

I used to try to grow tomatoes. However, they require attention and care, something that falls by the wayside when you're trying to grow a business. Luckily, I married a gardener. He took over the whole tomato growing enterprise this year and I was flush with them. I had tomatoes every day. It was heaven. This is the last tomato from this year's crop. It popped out late in the season and I picked it this morning and quartered it. I had some misgivings about painting tomatoes on an orange plate, but it turned out to be a fun exercise.

My first seascape.

The week between Christmas and New Years' my Patrone and I took a trip to Hawaii. I love the water, and I love being in the water, and so we had scheduled a scuba diving lesson, one of the things still on my bucket list. However, it was canceled because of a "rough, wintery day". In Hawaii. This means, I've figure out, that it's cloudy and the wind is blowing. Now, I've always shied away from painting water, especially waves. It just looks difficult. I took this picture from "flat island" or Popoi Island. It's a tiny island, barely a dot even on a close up on Google Earth. We had kayaked out there in a rented kayak in choppy seas and wandered around on it. My reference photo: Flat Island in Hawaii In taking this picture, I stood for quite some time trying to capture a large splash made by the choppy seas. It didn't work. Every time I turned my back, BIG SPLASH. When I turned around, the best I got was the one above. Nevertheless,

Still can’t paint that damned garden.

My husband is a gardener. He’s amazing. And, I keep thinking I should (there’s those “should” words) paint some of it, but there’s so much going on that it’s hard. However, this weekend, I decided to give it a shot. I pulled a 16x20 canvas out of my closet, and pulled up a picture on my iPad. There’s one on a cloudy day, and one with the sun out. I like to have both on hand, because the bright, but cloudy day photos give you more of an idea of the local color, while the sunny ones tell you where to put the shadows. I started with wetting my canvas with water. This is a thing I’m doing now, and so far it’s working okay, I think. The beginning lay-in is kind of water colors, since I’ve made the switch to water-miscible oils. I started sketching the lantern in, and—auuuggghhh! That is wwayyy to big. It’s water-y. So I took a paper towel and wiped it out. That’s better. I started putting in some of the structure of the waterfall, and the shadows under the charisma. I use a mixture

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