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Oil on gessoed hardboard
7″ wide x 5″ high (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
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I wanted to participate on The Greenwich Workshop Gallery’s Small Works competition, which closes on August 31 (I forgot to enter earlier!) so because I didn’t have anything for this event, I started playing with my camera and all I could find in my kitchen, to have a reference so I could have a painting done today to submit for the competition. Tons of pictures I took. I played with tomatoes, grapes, cherries, garlic, bottles of olive oil, everything I could literally find in my kitchen! I wanted to have something ready today, but none of the pictures I took I liked, so I stopped for one moment to think, as I did I saw this gorgeous beam of light coming through in between the curtains on my kitchen window and hitting my floor. So I grabbed all the fruits I had, put them on the floor so the beam of light would hit them and started playing again with my camera. My son was coming with a paper bag and some toys inside, so I asked him to give me the paper bag just for one minute to take some pictures. I took pictures with a banana and the bag, a cherry and the bag (I really liked this combination of colors) and other fruits, but for some reason I liked the one with the orange. So I took many shots of this one, and picked one, and started working on it. I really, really like the result. Cross your fingers! I don’t know if I would get accepted, but at least I’m trying! I’ll let you all know as soon as I get the news.