Three Tomatoes
painting 3: Thirty Paintings in thirty days
Today I painted tomatoes. The tomato crop is good this year. I often had dead plants before the tomatoes form. One year the temperatures remained in the 100's for weeks. All the leaves fell of my plants. Come August the temperatures dropped and it rained frequently. My rose bushes and tomato plants grew leaves and looked great. We had a frost before the second crop of tomatoes appeared
I chose to use a hot press paper. I am rarely happy with the painting process on this paper. It holds onto the paint and creates hark edges where I don't want them. I used a soft green for the background to heighten the red color.
When I laid these on the art table, on a white piece of mat board I notice great colors in the shadows. There were two light sources. One was the overhead lights which created the shadows. The second source was the window. This is not idea but real life.
Hmmmm. What will I paint tomorrow?
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