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Published: 2006-02-19 15:21:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 6481; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 149
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2006Oil on Canvas
16"x8"
I love painting fruit in a fairly clinical, sterile way. No shafts of sunlight or bowls of fruit usually...just the subject for what it is.
I always enjoy eating the fruit afterwards. Freud would love that (Sigmund that is).
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For some reason this one's always been my favorite, it just seems to stick with me, I think because of the simplicity of the subject and the brilliant way in which it was done, there must be something for me to learn in this.
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couldn't have said it better myself. I'm favoriting this one!
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Beautifully done. As always.
Why wouldn't you eat such delicious looking beets?
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I love your paintings of people, but this painting of Beets just reached out and grabbed me. I love the realistic Beets are Beets way that you painted this, frank, yet also luxuriating in their ... beetness. The hairy little roots, the big root like a rat's tail, and I expecially love the reds and purples that you used, as well as loving the background, the colors cast by the beets.
~shiftinglight has some beautiful still-life paintings - which he later ate for lunch or supper. I love the whole idea of that - making simple beauty a natural part of one's life.
I like your work so much, hope you don't mind if I watch you!
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I just love the detail in the roots stemming out from it.
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If you paint the food meticulously and eat it afterwards, it's like you've slowly conquered it. Kind of a higher form or hunting for your own food, maybe?
On a side note: Mmm...beeeeets....
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hmmm very nice and... funy 
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lol. Good ol' Freud. XD I love that you don't try to make it better, by say, putting it in a bowl or something. Nice! Just basically cut to the chase. Nice detail! Did you wash them?
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Yes, they were washed at that point...
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Sorry, that seems like a really dumb question, but yeah....mainly to wonder if the brownish/grayish parts were dirt or something.... XD
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Great job on the tones and colors, especially in the broad strokes.
-Drew Bob <^.^>
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I like the simplicity, it's refreshing to see a still life that doesn't involve the usual cliches like fruitbowls or vases. Nice colours too; although you've used blues and whites in some parts it doesn't come across as 'cold'.
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Thanks. I agree about conventional still life work..in fact anything conventional is rather unappealing. I like to examine the food/people/subjects almost clinically...don't know why, I just go with it:>
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hehe is that the beet root stuff with the red centre? i like thos in sandwhiches.. i never tried them with just itself though. but lovely blend with the reds
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Very strong work, I'm practiually impressed with the use of colour in the "white" backround
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Thanks. yes, white is so very rarely just white...there's always something else in there...
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yep. At least some of us notice
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wish I could paint half as good as that.. really nicely done, love the colours and composition. do you have a particular technique?
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Nice colour, and you even captured the brown "powdery" look beets have to them.
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awesome work here! they remind me of hearts with arteries.
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great painting.. haha.. interesting idea to paint beats..
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