Bartlett Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic, watersoluble crayon, and eraser stamp on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
A second one for today. Only six more to go!
Category: Paintings
Red Pear of DQQM
Red Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90b Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I goofed and made the background of this one too dark. I tried adding highlights to the pear, to brighten it up, but hated how they looked and I took them back out. So it’s the dark, glowy pear of DQQM.
Golden Bosc Pear
Golden Bosc Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and Neocolors II on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I did this one a little differently, by starting with an acrylic glaze as a background. The collage bit isn’t so much collage as just using an ad straight from a catalog. I grabbed an old Ethan Allen catalog, thinking it might have something in the right color palette to use as a background, but then I saw this dining room scene with a bowl of pears, and I couldn’t resist. I did do a little bit of stamping across the bottom, to tie the two pages together, but the book is a little too tall for my scanner, so it’s mostly cut off. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d scan both pages separately and stitch them together, but I am so lazy, so that ain’t gonna happen.
Red Pear
Red Pear (detail)
collage with Neocolors II and eraser stamp on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
Pear Lady
Red Pear (detail)
collage with watersoluble crayon and eraser stamp on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I had to buy a new batch of pears yesterday (the old ones went into the food dehydrator this morning). The kid at the checkout said, “Hey, you’re the pear lady!” Okaythen!
And pears, they are everywhere. Marsh has dragged out the holiday crap, and there are posters all over the store of little green pears with looped, silver hangers on their heads. There’s a large poster of one in the front window of the store. From the back of the parking lot, it looks like a pear, then when you get to the middle of the parking lot, it looks like a glass Christmas tree ball, then when you get up close to it, you can see the little pear speckles. It’s cute.
d’Anjou Pear and an Instant Review
d’Anjou Pear (detail)
collage with acrylic and eraser stamps on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
And, an instant review: The Wild
I love kids’ movies, but this one was a little bit meh. It did have one redeeming factor, though: Eddie Izzard. And, it was worth watching (or, listening to, as I was painting while it was on) solely for the line: “Do we not have the party hats of death?” I laughed so hard I nearly choked. Teh Enb.
Blue d’Anjou Pears
Blue d’Anjou Pears (detail left & right)
acrylic on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
This spread was done with just acrylic on paper, with the addition of a little bit of acrylic medium in a few spots. Mostly, I worked with the paint without diluting it, because I tend to prefer a bit of texture (you can see it in the detail views).
Non sequitur alert!
What do you say when a coworker walks past your desk and helps himself to a handful of Kleenexes? Seriously! I was at a total loss for words, and that just doesn’t ever happen to me! I have an evil temptation to buy him a box of tissues and leave it on his desk, anonymously. It would be worth it, except that I have a feeling that anyone who is that oblivious to what is and what is not socially acceptable would be unlikely to get the point.
Grrr.
And with that, I believe I have fulfilled my NoMoPoblano (or whatever the hell it’s called) commitment, and without having to resort to fluffy padding, either. Alas, I didn’t quite finish NaNoWriMo, but I gave it a good try. Getting sick didn’t help, nor did having my image database crash and having to rebuild it[1]. I also didn’t manage to do a pear a day, but I’m still working on it, and I’m not worried about completing the project. That, I can do.
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1. On that front, things are going well. I have everything (I think) uploaded and sorted, and about 90% of it is cataloged. Whew! That was a long, tedious, and thankless job.
It’s also a good lesson in why it’s important to do regular back-ups. Or, back-ups at all. I r st00pit. I am religious about making multiple back-ups of my files, but not my databases. Oops!
Little Fatty and the Bean Pole
Asian Pear and Bosc Pear (detail)
collage with Neocolors II, eraser stamps, and acrylic medium on 90lb Stonehenge paper
9 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches
I didn’t mean for this to be quite so busy! That patterned vase on top of the checkerboard stamp looks like really bad Op Art. I’m blaming the cold NyQuil. I’m also not happy with the way the Asian pear turned out, though I do like the bloom on the Bosc.
Bosc Pear and Asian Pear
Bosc Pear and Asian Pear (detail)
I like the watercolor bloom that happened when I did the undercoat, so I left as much of it as I could.
The Asian pear in the photo was upside down, because Harriet knocked it over. I put it back in the wrong position and didn’t notice until I went back to painting. At least she didn’t leave bite marks in it, this time! The banana she swiped off the kitchen table did not fair so well. I came back from taking out the trash to find it squashed all over the kitchen floor. Brat.
Two Pears (In Progress)
This is the first pass, using a very wet Q-tip to blend the watersoluble crayons. I kind of like how it looks just as is, so I thought I\’d better take a photo of it, in case I wreck it.
red paper boat 