Wine and Fruit DP #26

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January 12, 2008

Daily Painting #26 “Wine and Fruit”

This is an acrylic painting on a 6”x8” canvas. I created another little still life of a wine glass, red wine, an apple and three blackberries. You can see the entire process (and a photograph of the actual still life) in my youtube video titled, ‘Wine and Fruit” at http://www.youtube.com/GBHartists

Now this painting is quite interesting. I thought it would be nice to light an incense up in the loft, so I set one up, lit a match and OUCH, burned my finger! The match kind of exploded and the tip of the match landed on my ring finger on my right hand (my painting hand). YIKES it hurt like HECK. I immediately ran to the kitchen for my yellow mustard (this will heal a burn. No I am not crazy it works, I dare you to try it next time you have a burn. But don’t tell the FDA I said that… they’d find me and sue me ;) Anyway, I really couldn’t move my right hand very well, so I decided to paint today’s painting with my left hand.

This painting is probably 85% painted with the left hand and 15% with the right hand. I had to use my right hand for the tiny white lines in the wine glass and for the blackberries. It was a great challenge and I think I’ll do this again sometime in the future.


What’s on my mind lately? I’ll tell you, I’ve been thinking about the thought, ‘Don’t put off tomorrow what you can do today’. A few friends have been talking about this and it is still in my mind. My friend Alexis was getting her son ready for bed and was in full conversation in her head about all the stuff she had to do later in the evening. Realizing she was missing the opportunity to just BE with her son she stopped her crazy thoughts and did just that… enjoyed her son’s company. My friends Allyn & Sorin brought a beautiful bottle of Dom over for dinner to share with us for dinner and we all were discussing when the appropriate time would be to open such a treasure (it was a wedding gift). They said they wanted to share it with friends… and THAT was important to them more than anything.

How often do we think to ourselves, ‘I’ll do “A” when “B” happens’ and miss opportunities over and over and over. The short phrase by Nike, “JUST DO IT!” says it best. What ever dreams you may have inside I say GO FOR IT… What is stopping you? They can be small things or great big dreams, they’ll never manifest if action is not taken. Sometimes when I look at a big goal and think, ‘How can I possibly do that?’ I have to remind myself of the question, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

This is the daily motivation of the Daily Paintings. Just to do it. I have no idea what will come of this adventure, but I am having fun along the way.

Peace & blessings,
Gayle Etcheverry

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