These are the balance of the 4 easel paintings: a single fresh strawberry, and the top view of a gin and tonic. Both have very dark backgrounds. The strawberry painting kind of makes me laugh (but not out loud), as the strawberry is being showcased way too seriously. I struggled a bit with the strawberry; halfway through Dave walked in and said, "Oh, that's nice." And I snapped back, "It's terrible, it's pathetic, leave me be." After I put down a few more layers of red, its three dimensional shape took hold and I was myself again. The little leaves at the top, just like the leaves on top of the tangerines, don't look as curvy and rounded as I would like. It's a deeply shadowed area, so I'm going to blame that.
The final easel painting is the lime slices floating in a glass of what I'm going to assume is a gin & tonic (because that's where I would put lime slices). The effervescent bubbling going on in the photo was too much for my limited skill set. They are just random dots in my painting. I'm just happy there were no ice cubes to paint (phew, been there done that!) I was nervous about differentiating the greenish-blue of the fluid, with the green of the lime rinds, with the green of the lime flesh. It was getting late, I felt I should be going to bed, but I wanted to finish it....so I pushed myself. I'm pleased with the way the lime slices stand out. Sleep, who needs it?!
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