Salt the Asparagus

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I painted this today. All day. It's six by six inches, and it took all day. Amazing, right? So, getting things to look good with a palette knife isn't easy. Apparently I got lucky with the first one!! Or maybe I just have to be more selective about my subjects. And guess what, it wasn't the asparagus that was difficult! It was the bowls. I struggled and struggled with them, and then finally used my palette knife to scrape it all off, and started over. I think in the end the bowls were all brush. But I'm finally happy with it.

I've done oodles and oodles of abstract collage lately, and I think I'm finally ready to offer them up for sale. I experimented today with getting good images of a couple. I found that scanning was best, although no matter what I tried I couldn't get the oranges to come out right. In the image to the left, the middle piece is a brighter, more saturated orange. And in the right one, the three red pieces are actually orange. Is it my scanner? Is there a better way to do this? Does anyone have any experience photographing collage? I would really appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!

Making Eyes

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This was my second attempt at asparagus and lemon. I did it a few days ago, and since it's been sitting on my shelves I can't help but see it as a squid, with lemon slices for eyes! Can you see it? Bet you can't un-see it now. At any rate, I really like this one. It was one of those rare ones that just fell off the brush.

Grill Me

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I was cutting up lemons and asparagus recently for dinner and realized they make an incredibly pretty pair. Normally we grill asparagus, but this was for a new recipe that gets wrapped in foil (with salmon!) and baked. It turned out really well.

Queen of the Asparagii

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Many of you have tried to guess the big surprise tomorrow. It's been very interesting to read the guesses. : ) But I am not giving anything away. You'll just have to wait. Sorry about that. Meanwhile I've been trying my hand at asparagus after a long break. What do you call more than one of these green things? Asparaguses just sounds plain wrong.