Radishes | Pine Cone (2016)
Memory of a Day
I was painting a decent number of still life paintings in this period, something that has fallen almost entirely off my menu the past couple of years. Since they were usually small and alla prima—fancy for wet-on-wet, single session paintings without drying between layers—memories can be fewer with these. Funny enough there’s also a second fancy way of describing these: premier coup. Because artists weren’t pretentious enough with one foreign language phrase.
When I was going to paint these radishes, however, we had friends visiting for a few days. Their daughter found it neat that I was going to paint, so after a bit we setup a bean bag for her to sit and watch, which was nice and lasted no more than 10 minutes before she found something more interesting to do. Because watching an artist work, real-time, is not very interesting most of the time. You might get something neat at the end, but minute-by-minute nothing seems to happen.
