Ten-Minute Paintings, 5x7 Oil on Panel Still Life

I've been doing lots of practice paintings to loosen up; first, 30-minute ones, then ten-minute ones. As I previously mentioned, my painting group did ten-minute exercises the last time we met, and it was a lot of fun.

I also did a yellow pear, and I'm not showing that one. Ick. It was, however, delicious.

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Everything's Better With Garlic, 7x5 Oil on Canvas

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I like everything about garlic: the look, the taste, the smell. My grandmother was Italian, yet she cooked very few Italian dishes, and I never saw garlic cloves in our house. When she and my grandfather became pioneers in Florida she became a Southern cook and learned to fry everything. He was from Spain, so I wonder what he thought about that? The other non-traditional thing for an Italian woman was that she didn't like to cook. Bad luck for us.

Red Pepper, 6x6

I just couldn't think of a clever, or sarcastic, or odd, title for this. It's simply a red pepper, one of Nature's  beautiful and delicious foods. It just sits there quietly in all its vibrant red deliciousness.

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