[Aquanet] Bowl of Cherries

[Shawna Lampi-Legaree]

Hi Pat
THanks for the comments.  It was my first time ever doing silver.  I know that I didn't get it right but I figure someday when I have time I will do 20 or more paintings of silver containers and maybe then I will just be getting IT.  I think that the riddle that you are stuggling with is that I have done very few paintings.  In fact if you go to my website you will see almost all the paintings I have done...3 this winter and 4 last winter (all of which were 8x10 in size). The rest of the 15 whole paintings were bookmark sized and very beginnerish.   I do work in my studio 8 hrs a day  quilting.  This means I try to paint when I can,s hich isn't often if I only did three paintings this past winter.

Shawna



> From: patchapin at mindspring.com
> To: aquanet at cleverwhiz.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 10:02:44 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Aquanet] Bowl of Cherries
> 
> This painting is a sort of riddle, and perhaps I'm still trying to figure it 
> out?  Between the contrasting colours and daring contours, it really reaches 
> out and grabs your attention.
> 
> The cutwork cloth is masterfully accomplished, and the kind of thing that 
> makes my palms itch, knowing I'd never be able to do it.  Cherries, ditto, 
> although I wonder how and why they are all the same.
> 
> Where it fell down is the bowl, and part of me wants to say the artist got 
> tired or got eyestrain, as it is not that the bowl is 'bad', it is not done 
> with the same attention to crisp form and detail as the rest of the piece; 
> the refractions inside and out are almost 'cloudy', although perhaps itis a 
> pewter bowl?  You can certainly get by that part, and when I see that this 
> is the first attempt at a half-sheet, maybe that's part of it?  (Yours truly 
> takes a risk on anything less than a half-sheet).
> 
> If, as some painters have written, we give ourselves a problem and then 
> attempt to solve it, this was a huge chunk of several different problems, 
> and with the exception of the silly bowl, they all seem to have been pretty 
> much solved.
> 
> pat chapin
>  
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