Vine Ripened Tomatos 6ins x 4.5ins Oil on board

I actually did this paint a couple of weeks ago now. However I have been busy scanning some of my older paintings as high resolution images and uploaded them to my Zazzle.com gallery so I haven't had so much opportunity to paint.

Call me the Love Apple. Oil on Board 6ins x 4.5ins

I bought these apples last week along with some vine ripened tomatoes. I thought the colours went together beautifully. Of course its very convenient tomatoes are also called love apples. This little Love Apple obviouly lives up to the name. :)

This painting is 6ins x 4.5ins and painted oil on board.

Sea Salted Tomato Eighths. Oil on Board 4.5ins x 6ins

I bought some nice vine ripened tomatoes last week. Well vine tomatoes. apart from having a nice smell to them (although you do wonder whether that comes in an aerosol can) always look more interesting for painting still attached together with a vine. So I bought a nice little bunch of them all joined together. Unfortunately all but one fell off the vine by the time I got home, in spite of the fact I was careful in how I wrapped them. Drat! Still never mind some of them still had their little crowns on which was nice and I managed to take a few photos of them in various still-life arrangements. At the end of the photo session I chopped one up into eighths, salted them with ground sea salt and ate them with Mature cheddar, very nice :)

Bid for or buy this painting.

Cherry Tomatoes. 4ins x 6 ins Oil on Board

This is a painting of a punnet of cherry tomatoes I bought last week and decided to paint. I suppose they are rather large as cherry tomatoes go but they really were this size. I dare say giant cherry tomatoes would kind of defeat the object. Perhaps they need to use a sieve with smaller holes. :)

Actually that reminds me of the old advert for Surprise Peas which I believe may have been the first frozen vegetable introduced into shops in the 50s or 60s. Surprise peas were supposed to be very small, sweet and tender, so larger fatter harder peas were rejected. The TV advert had a character called Cannonball who was a very large pea, much too big and hard to get into the packet of Surprise peas. However he would try various ways and means, needless to say always unsuccessfully, to squeeze into the packets.

Of course in these more PC times I don't suppose they could get away with that sort of parody of discrimination, and I dare say that may have been the reason the advert eventually stopped, although I don't think Surprise Peas exist any more. However it always Struck me as a kid that whilst all the sweet tender little peas that went into every packet of Surprise Peas got cooked and eaten, Cannonball was immortal. So perhaps the true lesson of the Surprise Peas advert is being different may not be such a bad thing after all. :)