This one I was experimenting with the red edging on the coleus leaves, trying to suggest the pattern without drawing a million little lines. My attempts were not too successful. The colors are pretty close though….
Here’s the finished tomato bonanza. Again I was trying to indicate the smooth marbling pattern of the counter. But this is pretty much a fail. But I do like the tomatoes and the sugar shaker. (I come from a family that puts sugar on their tomato slices. I’ve never met anyone else who does that!)
This is half successful. I like the way the first two bottles are painted; the last two look a little too studied….
You're really into summer, aren't you? Those coleus colors are spot on and you do have the sense of the markings in some places. The counter may not be exactly yours, but it definitely has the feel of mottled stone. Again, those tomatoes are magnificent, especially the colors. Same for the glasses. The two pairs seem to be slightly different—like they're in different sunlight. Those first two just sparkle. All the shadows are lovely.
ReplyDeleteOh, and we do sugar on our tomatoes too! Both my grandmothers did; is there any other way?
I like all the bottles. But then, I just like bottles. A while ago I thought you were using too much pigment but I’m getting used to that style and starting to like it.
ReplyDeleteMy family also put sugar on tomatoes. One of my fondest memories is of my grandmother sitting in her tomato patch with a shaker of sugar eating tomatoes right off the vine.
Why doncha make that plant an onion and get rid of the bowl? See, much better now.
ReplyDeleteThe tomatoes are bold and bumptious, which is their nature, but that shaker is small and ashamed as well it should be. Why doncha switch it for a carafe of maple syrup.
Those two bottles on the right are at the party where Momma told them not to come and they look like it. I'd suggest they ditch their sugar packets before the tomatoes are served.