The search for interesting shapes and colors in the grocery store, for subjects to draw and paint, has brought about greater diversity in what I eat. Tonight the acorn squash transformed from actor in a table-top still life into a nourishing side dish. I’ve read that when Matisse lived on the coast in Nice, there was a restaurant downstairs from his flat. A waiter would bring up oysters or other dishes for him to paint which would later in the day return to the kitchen to be sold to customers. What a perfect arrangement between artist and chef.
ABOVE: Still Life, micron pen, 5 x 8.25 in, (12.7 x 20.95 cm), 1/9/2009
Still Life, micron pen, 5 x 8.25 in, (12.7 x 20.95 cm), 1/9/2009
Still Life, micron pen, 5 x 8.25 in, (12.7 x 20.95 cm), 12/24/2008