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Thursday, July 14, 2011
We have another fig tree that they planted in the middle of our yard that I really like. It's got a beautiful shape and I love the way the leaves look (on the tree and in flower arrangements) so that's why it gets to stay. Unfortunately, I don't like the taste of the fruit. It is a green fig tree and I thought that I was picking them too early or too late but maybe I just don't like figs.
Seeing that we also have a purple fig tree made me happy because I thought that surely they would taste better. Everyone has told me how good the purple ones taste. I always assumed that the tree in the corner was also a green fig tree because I had never looked at it when the fruit was ripe. When I saw that they were purple, I couldn't wait to taste them and also paint them.
Well... they were fun to paint and I really like the shapes of the figs but they taste worse than the green ones! My friend that loves figs was over yesterday and she tasted one and also said it was terrible so it's not just me. Why couldn't the birds plant a fig tree that makes good tasting fruit? At least they are pretty for painting although I think I like the look of the contrast between the inside and outside of the green ones better.
This is a palette knife painting on a 6" x 6" panel. I really like the look of this size and shape of painting and how they look in the floater frames with the painting mounted to the front so that none of it is covered. I wanted to be a little different with this one so I painted it rotated 45 degrees and it will hang this way. Here's how it looks in the frame:
Image size 6" x 6"
Oil on canvas board
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