Breakfast, With Bagel

[meistergedanken]

Acrylic.  My still life tour-de-force.  Carefully arranged the items with a fresh egg bagel on an old pillowcase, then took and developed an 8x10 photograph to work from (I needed that table for actual meals!).  This was mid-90’s; I hadn’t been painting that long and I wanted to see just how realistic I could be, and damn if I didn’t pull it off.

Comments

[aasin]

How often would you say you paint these days?

[meistergedanken]

I do most of my painting now in winter, it seems - with no yard work to do I have a couple extra hours of free time a week. [Also, too much stuff going on socially and at work to typically paint in summer and fall.] I lock myself in my studio for 2 - 4 hours at a time on Saturday or Sunday. Usually I'm OK with this routine, because I have to wait a week for oil paint layers to sufficiently dry anyway before I can apply paint over them. But I would like to be able to do more than only two paintings a year...

Cool!

[redheart_blu]

Very nice! Interesting selection of elements for sure, good to make it uncommon! Flower pots, fruit, etc., all that stuff has been done a million times over. Very good work!

Re: Cool!

[meistergedanken]

Thanks! I started another one about ten years ago that had a glass vase, a dagger, a pocket watch and a magnifying glass, but I only got it about half done before I stopped working on it and stuck it in the closet. My wife keeps saying I should go ahead and complete it, but I kind of painted myself into a corner. So to speak.

[jume]

It's amazing. It has a quality that you'll never get from a photograph or photoshop filter. Cameras sometimes see too much.

[jume]

Do you still have the photograph you worked from?

[meistergedanken]

Probably. I tend not to throw stuff like that out (I'm one of those "you never know when you might need it" people), but I'm sure it's secreted deep within some forlorn cardboard box, and will not see the light of day again for years...

[meistergedanken]

That's true. They can be particularly unkind to people. Which is why there should always be a market for portrait painting (though for me it is the least rewarding of all the painting types).