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<\/a><\/p>\nI cannot tell you how much I love the drama and motion of the red cabbage. \u00a0I am very, very proud of that painting. \u00a0After the cabbage, I painted a butternut squash. \u00a0I found a picture of one cut open, which I thought was much more interesting than the outside of one, which is really quite dull:<\/p>\n
And how surprised I was! \u00a0I think that the kiwi fruit painting came out really, really well. \u00a0WAY better than my initial attempt. \u00a0And my brown paints were a bit old\/dry, which created this wonderful texture on the peel — I couldn’t have attempted anything better to indicate the fuzziness of kiwi fruit skin.<\/p>\n A note on the framing: \u00a0I highly recommend a local picture framer, Art at Azteca Frame<\/a> in Burbank. \u00a0Art is the master at taking the artwork and putting it at the next level with the framing. \u00a0We ended up going with a dark mat to match the background of the paintings and a brightly colored fillet to match the brightness of the produce. \u00a0I think that it came out so nicely — the darkness really helps the vividness of the colors to pop.<\/p>\n So, happy wedding to Terrence & Liz, two years late. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two good friends of mine, Terrence & Liz, got married two years ago, a destination wedding held in Italy on the island of Capri. \u00a0Although I really wanted to travel to their wedding (and see Italy, much less Capri!), I … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/butternutsquash-1024x882.jpg\" "\\"Butternut")
<\/a>I like how this one came out, contrasting the smoothness of the inside of the vegetable with the very textured seeds\/guts. \u00a0After painting the squash, I then turned to their third fruit, a pomegranate. \u00a0I have previously painted a pomegranate<\/a>\u00a0as a gift for my mother-in-law that I really like, so I was a little nervous that this one would come out as good:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pomegranate-1024x823.jpg\" "\\"Pomegranate")
<\/a>I am happy with how it came out, although I wish I would have left a little more white in the seeds to make them a bit more luminescent. So once I finished the pomegranate, the truth was before me: I had to do the kiwi. \u00a0So, I just didn’t…for a number of months. \u00a0I was too afraid, after the first attempt. \u00a0But, one day I got the courage to just apply the paint to the paper and see what would happen:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kiwifruit-1024x832.jpg\" "\\"Kiwi")
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