Wrestling With Creation

Oooh I wrestled with this painting! Wrestled! You would have thought I was pounding on the canvas. Actually, I guess I was.

The wrestling was unexpected. Pears as a subject are like comfort food for me.

Not this time.

There were days when I thought the pear was beautiful and days when it made me cry. It was a messy gestation, a messy birth, a messy rearing and finally a messy release. There are brush hairs everywhere and lurking pentimento.

Still, I loved it and could not let it go.

Even this morning when I finally surrendered, it would not photograph properly. The background is actually a deep sage green with hints of red.

You can see a bit of the pentimento in this video:





Finishing this piece fairly early this morning paved the way for an entire day of spirited painting.

I'm so glad I didn't give up on it or me...