An original acrylics painting, on canvas panel
16 X 20", unframed
$400.00, - ( plus $35.00, pack & ship )
( Click on image to enlarge. )
Some viewers may find the little, tongue-twister title of this posting a bit silly, rather
than mildly amusing, but I'm hoping that a majority of them will fall into the latter group.
( I suppose that is an ego thing. ) But there is a kind of logic to the choice of title, if you
consider the original cause of the impulse to paint these tulips.
Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which the gardener of the house has just finished his
morning coffee, and decides to go out for a stroll around the garden, to take a look at
some of the weather damages to his tender plants. As he walks, he decides to save the
last of the storm-ravaged tulips, and bring them inside, where he then plunks them into
his coffee mug, still sitting on the kitchen counter. And then, having saved them, (at least
for a few, last days of fading glory), he decides to use them as subjects for a painting.
After all, he is well aware that he may not have the opportunity to see them bloom again
next year.
Something very much like that happened here, but with a much, less interesting
coffee-mug, and with a more interesting, morning beverage.
The painting is an impressionist piece, emphasizing a strong interplay of light and
shadow, rather than a simply doing it as a botanical study. Whenever possible, I like
to give still-life paintings, a feeling of mystery or unknown potential, so that the viewer
might ask, what more there is, to the story of these objects.
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