This weeks Daily Paint Works Challenge is to paint an emotion. Wow! I have never painted an emotion before and was excited to get started. Except what emotion would I paint? How would I paint it once I decided on my choice? Many choices came to mind but were quickly dismissed. Then I looked in my kitchen for a snack to fuel my tired brain and there was my subject, my just picked garden tomatoes. (While I was out of town, Jane, my neighbor had saved them from the frost, by picking every tomato still on my plants. - Thank you, Jane.) A few of the tomatoes were ripe, red and perfect. Most of the tomatoes were green, blemished and pretty un-tomato looking. These green tomatoes looked like they were envious of the red tomatoes maturity, ripeness and beauty to me. So I set up my tomato still life and painted the emotion 'envy' thanks to these tomatoes.
PS To all those green tomatoes out there - you can ripen up if you are put in a paper bag with a few green friends and placed on top of the refrigerator for a few days. Or you can be turned into fried green tomatoes!
