I ended up throwing the decaying kiwi away shortly after I sketched it. But I had another one that I sketched on one or two occasions; I wanted to see what it looked like inside. Today’s study I was fairly certain that this kiwi was not grown near a nuclear plant, but rather was an alien. It must […]
Today was another busy day. I was busy for hours longer than I thought I would be, although there was no emergency like the other day, when we had to go to the hospital. It is enough to say that the 8 hour job for which I was hired, turned into a 14 hour day. Not that […]
Today I took the next logical step with my dragonfruit. I split it open. To tell you the truth, I knew what to expect. Before I ever saw a dragonfruit in person, I searched for a picture of it on the Internet. I was only expecting to see an outside view, but there it was, split […]
As promised, today’s fruit is papaya. I never realized that a papaya had so many seeds. I imagine it is in the melon family, because the inside is arranged just like a cantaloupe’s insides. It also smells funky. Nothing I can put my finger on, but the first image that came to my mind (or […]
Most still lifes have a collection of fruit, or vegetables, or dead rabbits, dead fish or any combination of them. I suppose the prerequisite for a still life is that the objects once had to be alive. Having not yet delved into the history of painting of ‘still lifes’, I am curious to know the […]
