Description
I’ve been wanting to follow up Fauchon Eclairs with another food painting. I made this tart for Father’s Day dinner 2007. I took several photos and loved the lusciousness I saw in them. I’ve been hesitant to paint this, as I was missing the color green in it. It needed some kiwi or green grapes. Nevertheless, it kept calling to me. It was a challenge to paint – all those reflections, apricot jam spilling over bluberries with the blue coming through the orange. How was I going to represent that?! I put myself on a deadline to get it painted in time to enter into the 2008 California State Fair. Even with working, I got it done in about 10 days – the quickest yet! All I did besides work, sleep, eat and walk BJ was paint, paint, paint! It’s very satisfying to be focusing on producing work like this. This painting won a Merit Award at the 2008 Marin County Fair Fine Art Exhibit.
May 2008
