Happy Birthday, Judy-O!!
Have you heard California referred to as “the land of fruit and nuts”?
If you take the statement figuratively, it is referring to people in the state.
If you take the statement literally, it is referring to the vast amount of food produced here in Central California.
As a Central California artist, it is my duty, nay, my calling, to portray these things.
There are fall shows coming, and these require items to sell. When I do shows in places other than Three Rivers, paintings of fruits sell well. They sell steadily all year, and definitely do better down the hill than the mountain scenes.
That lower painting? It was this:
It has been collecting dust since January. Chances are good that if I didn’t like it enough to finish painting it, no one would like it enough to write a check for it.
I asked my boss and she said I could cover it with pomegranates.
It’s good to be the boss.
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