by David R. Darrow
7" x 5" (17.8cm x 12.7cm)Oil on Panel
SOLD Collection of Robin Neudorfer
San Marino, CA – USA
About This Painting
There's a "farmer's market" in a large Carlsbad, CA parking lot each Wednesday. Vendors — most of them the actual farmers of the produce the sell at the market — set up white-topped tent booths and hawk their wares for one day a week.
I think the tomatoes from local growers beat the taste of store tomatoes 365 days a year. So, when I can, I buy them from local growers.
When setting up for a new display at a local art gallery a while back, it looked to me like there was a little bit of room for another painting, and so I asked the owner if I could bring in a 5 x 7 to add to the upcoming show. Permission granted, I told her I'd "be right back" and headed home.
When I arrived in my studio, I got out a blank 5 x 7 panel and dashed to the kitchen to find something to paint.
I couldn't resist this gorgeous, red tomato I had purchased a couple of days before at the farmer's market. Slicing into it, juice spilled out either side, but the firm tomato fruit held its shape perfectly as I removed this aromatic wedge and posed the parts to compose my painting.
An hour later, I returned to the gallery with this finished painting, framed and wired, ready to hang.
"Careful," I smiled. "It's still wet."
"You just painted it?"
"Yep. I told you I'd be right back."
I probably priced it too high for my little known name at the time, so eventually it came back home.
It's time to let it go. ◙
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3 comments:
David, that's a beautiful painting. I love that you ran home and 'dashed' it off.
Did you change the front page on this site? I really like it.
Thanks, Mary!
And, no, I didn't change anything here except the banner photo at the top.
But it does give it a whole new look.
Great colors -- great story --
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