EDM 135 - A Salad

In my opinion, there is one perfect salad--a fresh fruit salad that contains NO melons or apples--and then there are all the lesser kinds of salad, including green salads. They're all fine, but I'm kind of crazy about fruit salad. It MUST be homemade.

Sorry, melon-lovers, if I offended you, but I am not a fan. And, I love apples, but they don't belong in fruit salad. I'm not opinionated about this at all. I just know what I like. The perfect salad is kiwi, pineapple, mango, grapes, strawberries, mandarin oranges, and bananas. No sugar. No yogurt. Just the fruit. Have I made myself annoyingly clear? :)

EDM 135 - A Salad; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 134 - A Familiar Thing from an Unusual Angle

This is the view through the bottom of an empty olive oil bottle. I call this "Through the Cooking Glass." It's a little weird. What can I say?

EDM 134 - A Familiar Thing; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 133 - A Peach

Yes, we have no peaches...in October. I refuse to buy the peach-colored, peach-fuzz-covered rocks that are passed off as peaches in the grocery store all year long. The name "stone fruit" doesn't mean they're supposed to feel and taste like rocks! And, that ends this "Buy Fresh, Buy Local" public service announcement for today.

EDM 133 - Peaches; 3x3" watercolor & markers

EDM 132 - A Chain

It was fun creating my own Charm City. I wasn't going for excessively cute, but I think I ended up there.

EDM 132 - A Chain; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 131 - A Spray Bottle

I wasn't sure how to make this interesting. I went with an unusual view. It's kind of an odd little piece. Put it in the file with all the other odd little pieces I've done, and instruct them to keep it quiet in there! (The art ain't the only odd thing that exists around here at 2:00 in the morning!)

EDM 130 - School Supplies

I went with ART school supplies. These items were my constant companions during my year of studying commercial art in Chicago back in the mid 1980s. I photographed the finished piece with the actual black plastic gear that appears in the painting. The gear is the mechanical key for twisting the nib off a Koh-i-noor Rapidograph mechanical pen (pictured at the top). I used Rapidograph pens every day in art school. I loved them!

And, for the puzzle portion of this piece: when unscrambled, the brown letters scattered around the piece spell "art school."

EDM 130 - Art School Supplies; 3x3" watercolor

EDM 129 - People Doing Something

I snapped the reference picture for this in June. The lovely Asian woman with gorgeous black hair seemed fine with getting the bottom of her beautiful, tiered dress wet in the Crown Fountain. It seemed like the epitome of stop-motion, carefree-ness to me. I loved this place and wanted to stay forever. Wish I were back there right now.

EDM 129 - People Doing Something; 3x3" watercolor