“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

― Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now if I could just figure out what I love . . .

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

― Confucius

Found Still Life

The assignment was to take a walk around my neighborhood and find something that doesn't belong there.

Studio as Still Life

I was to paint my studio . . . otherwise known as the dining area. Alas, the coffee can is a bit slanted. I admit I did not analyze beforehand. I must remember that.

Still Life as Narrative

This probably doesn't qualify as a true still life, but I chose an image that came to me from the lyrics of the George Harrison song, Beware of Darkness. "While weeping willow cedars, they just want to grow, grow and grow, beware of darkness."

I enjoyed making a chromatic black with scarlet and viridian green.

Texture

I need to pay more attention keeping the plumb line of the whisk and paste brush and other like objects with handles straight.

Space

The idea was to choose three large objects and arrange them in space, the darker, smaller-appearing object in the background, the middle value bigger-appearing object in the mid ground, and the lightest, biggest-appearing object in the foreground. Even though I was getting tired and hated this painting while I was doing it, I liked it more when I quit painting and left it for a while.