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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Inspiration for Chilies


Chilies, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2"
I painted these luscious chilies as a demonstration for some students I was tutoring in IB Art at Academia Cotopaxi in Quito, Ecuador. Their IB assignment was to paint something with local flavor (pun intended). I don't paint still lifes very often, but this one was fun. Still lifes provide a good controlled environment for teaching: the light doesn't change like in a landscape, the subject doesn't move like a human or animal subject, and you can control the composition.

Afterwards I ate the chilies.

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