Cherry Red

8" x 8" acrylic on canvas panel

I wanted to paint these cherries one last time before they were too shriveled. I love the bright yellow background. The two touching cherries are supposed to draw your eye. It is a composition trick I read about in the book, "The Simple Secret to Better Painting ". It is a great book, and I recommend it to anyone trying to make more interesting paintings.

Cherry Bomb

8" x 8" acrylic on canvas board

More cherries, more purple. The next time I paint transparent glass, I am really going to work on simplifying the shapes that I see to create the illusion of transparency. I repainted this glass several times and each time I left out more detail. TRADED -for a bottle of Cachaca from our visiting friend from Brazil. A pretty good trade I would say.

2/5/2009 Cherubs

Red is a hard color.  Here are three cherry tomatoes.  6" x 6" acrylic on canvas board.