I painted this at the same time as "A Shoulder to Cry On" but with a much lighter feeling. I had no car because I flew in and was forced to go to the only grocery store in walking distance which was terrible. The grapes were really the only interesting thing I saw but my options were either find something to paint or watch TV.

At first the pear was only slightly banged up, it took a day or two to look like that. I liked that the pear was a little squatty, round, and beaten up a little. I thought about the the old joke of it being surrounded by groups of fruits and nuts and thought "He'll survive"