Description
This is the largest painting I had made to date. And I worked on it fiercely to get it done in time to be framed for my first time at the Sausalito Art Festival. Mid-Summer Zin has been so well received, I’ve been looking forward to creating another painting of wine grapes. These are again Mike and Julie’s Zinfandel grapes. Though the lighting is different, it was the same evening last summer. Yet, painting this I kept wondering how the colors were ending up so different from the first Zin painting. They ended up being brighter and more stained-glass-like. I also liked including and painting the post. It’s solid and neutral and is a grounding influence in the painting.
This painting speaks to me of transformation. Zinfandel grapes start out all green and they end up all blue. They become all the colors in between as they ripen. But they don’t all ripen at the same rate. Kind of like us. As we evolve, it’s mostly not a uniform process. The gift is that the light illuminates and shows us the beauty in each stage.
August 2008
