Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Let's paint bananas, she said!




I inwardly groaned.  I can barely paint a lemon.  "Bananas are HAAARD", I whined.

"Come on Mom,  I've been wanting to paint bananas."  I had just been to HEB, and there was a beautiful bunch of pale yellow, perfect bananas sitting on my kitchen island.

"All right", I sighed.  So I put the bananas into my canvas art supply bag, and off my daughter and I went to our art class.  When we took them out to put on the set up table, they had broken out with brown speckles during the ride!

Our instructor was puzzled at why we had brought brown bananas to paint.  We were laughing and trying to assure him that they were beautiful when we left the house.

So we painted them without the spots.  I guess that's artistic license.

11" X 14" oil on canvas
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10 comments:

  1. I love artistic license. I wonder if my husband would like a painting of brown bananas. He prefers eating them that way. I like your bananas.

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  2. Thank you for coming by. I put brown bananas into banana bread-can't just eat them that way.

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  3. Good job Virginia. I think bananas are hard to paint. Actually, anything yellow trips me up.

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  4. I couldn't agree with you more...bananas are very hard to paint! I've only done it once and am not eager to try again. You've done a great job on these beauties!

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  5. Stephanie, I think yellows are hard because they are more transparent. It's difficult to paint over another color.

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  6. Gwen, your paintings are all so lovely. I think you could easily paint bananas!

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  7. Nice job on the bananas! I find them incredibly difficult...I agree with Stephanie...anything yellow is Hard.

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  8. Thanks for your encouragement, Linda.

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  9. Bananas are a challenge, but the first step is always that...just taking the step. Which you did.

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  10. You are right, Pam. I was surprised that I thought it actually turned out better than I had anticipated.

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