So here's how
the this got started. I was doing standard still-life sizes
for a while, 18 x 24, 24 x 48 etc. I was bored after two. I
liked painting people and being able to talk to them and find
out who they were. Still Lifes had no personality right? Why
not? I have some experience in animation and I remembered how
in the old Warner Bros. Cartoons the Coyote and Dog would stop,
mid-action, when the whistle blew at 5pm, punch out, and say
goodnight to each other. I thought, "what if I treated
the objects in the still-life like actors on the stage?"
They would be the cast of the painting, rather than just boring
fruit.
What was going on in this
painting was that the painting itself was already over and
the cast is lined up to take a bow. They are the cast in my
play.....