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Last of the Peppers - Daily Painting by George De Chiara

Last of the Peppers

 I set this still life at the end of last week with the intention of painting it over the weekend. However, our little girl, who's 13 months old now, has recently discovered the joy of running around at the park and the weekends are the best time to take her since both my wife and I can go. Besides everyone needs some time to just play! With the weekend over, I couldn't wait to get to painting. I've been watching the peppers continue to change colors every time I walked by them. These are the last of the peppers I think our garden will produce this year. There are a few still growing, but their production has really slowed down this week. The eggplants, on the other hand, are still going strong. In fact when I went to check on them today, they had new flowers on them and a half dozen more fuit growing. None of them are very large, but they sure are plentiful this year.

Last of the Peppers

 
Painting Details:
Larger Version available here
Size: 11 inches x 14 inches on canvas panel. 
Medium: Original Oil Painting
Frame: none
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Initialed on front. Signed and dated on back.

Daily Painting - Early Fruit

Early Fruit

 

 It seems like it's late in the summer to just be getting the first eggplants on the vine. We got our garden in a little late this year. On top of that, we had a serious shade issues until we had some trees removed. I guess that's why we are just getting some fruit, and it's looking pretty good. I think this might be our best year yet for eggplant in the 3 years we've been growing it. Now I just wish I knew what it was we did so right finally. Anyway, I had a lot of fun painting them and want to do a few more when the next batch gets a little bigger. I picked these right when I was done painting them.