"A Spoon Full of Sugar..."

Good morning,

This painting was done this morning. I thought of the title before I started the painting. I was looking at this pretty pottery sugar bowl that I have from the 80's. The cream pitcher was broken but I still hold on to this and use it often. It has memories of our other mountain house, only about 800 sf but such fun to escape to from the rush of Charlotte. I had the chance to spend a couple of years going there to paint during a period that I left the business world.

But, back to the painting...I picked up the spoon to add to the set up and then thought of the title. This is a small oil painting. I use Vasari, in the colors I can afford and Winsor Newton. In Vasari I have french ultramarine, cad. yellow light, cad. red light, , cad. lemon and a color, called Shale, that is a wonderful brown with purple tones that is great for darks in a landscape. If you have a chance to get some of the VASARI colors, please do. They are expensive but great to paint with. I did add WN Cobalt to the paints I used and some WN orange in the FU to make the darker blue for the shadows and a touch of yellow ochre in the off-white of the table top. It was painted on a cut sheet of an old canvasette tablet that I had and have been using for these each day paintings. I like the little painting and wish I had remember the instructions to my students to use good materials; you don't know when you will get a "masterpiece".

Until tomorrow, maybe.