Feeling Blue
Friar’s Blogging Tip #157: When in doubt, show a painting of some fruit.
It’s almost guaranteed to generate at least one snarky comment.
Tags: blueberries, original artwork., painting, watercolor
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February 26, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Your Blueberries look like real wild ones we used to go pick in Algonquin park instead of the farmed ones I see in the supermarket. Thank you.
February 26, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Okay… me first!
I’m berry, berry happy when I’m not feeling blue. *snicker*
Very nice Friar. Good dimension in this; those are some plump looking berries and I like the use of colour in the background.
Where’s EyeSnarkyCommentGuy
February 26, 2010 at 5:15 pm
I love blueberries – and am healing my kidney’s with blueberries….I have hedges and hedges of blueberries – it is amazing I do not turn blue.
I have a daughter who loves blueberries and I found a ceramics – potter in Maine who made her a set of Blueberry dinnerware with his lovely drawings on it as a Graduation Present from college. I would love to give her a print of your painting….it is quite lovely and did you know that blueberries are the greatest source of calming for folks with anxiety issues? Better than nearly every drug on the pharmacy shelf.
Snarky enough?
February 26, 2010 at 6:15 pm
@ Wee Friar,
Love it. I’m impressed. Is that a watercolour of the blueberries we picked by the railroad tracks, when we were fishing on that memorable evening.
What I most remember is being laden with berries, bass, and fishing gear as you portaged the canoe over your head.
Yah! Leave your mom behind with the “bear bait”. You have no idea how scared I was. I kept looking over my shoulder, as we hiked back to the car after sunset.
February 26, 2010 at 6:46 pm
@Dave1949
Actually, these are wild blueberries. In roughly the same area (just outside Algonquin).
@Davina
(*Groan!*) Thanks BERRY much.
Yeah, where IS EyeSnarky Guy? (Usually he gets firsties!)
@Patricia
Better than almost any drug on the pharmacy shelf? …Really?
Better not tell the people at Merck-Frost.
@Friar’s Mom
Dont’ worry, I’ve never seen a bear, in all the years I fished there.
Besides, if there was a bear, he’d have gone after me. (I run the slowest of us two).
February 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm
@Wee Friar,
Yes I can run faster, but I also carried the yummy berries and smelly fish
I don’t care if you never saw a bear at your fishing spot. We were in bear territory.
Didn’t you post a photo of bear scat deposited in the middle of your suburban back yard.
February 26, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Very realistic. At first I thought it was a photograph. Nice work!
February 26, 2010 at 7:46 pm
@Friar’s Mom
Well, I supposed you could have just DROPPED the smelly berries and fish.
I’m sure the Teddy Bears would prefer a tasty ready-to-eat snack like that, versus trying to chew on a tough old stringy lady like Friar’s Mom!
@linda
Oh…thanks for the compliment, but I made lots of mistakes in this painting (I just won’t tell you what they are!)
February 26, 2010 at 9:28 pm
One snarky comment coming right up! I’d hate to void your guarantee.
I was actually taking a holiday with the family and I left my iPhone in the car. So there.
As for the blueberries? Wassa matta, you never seen blue berries before? Didga forget your camera?
Eyeteaguy
February 26, 2010 at 10:04 pm
@Eyeteaguy
Art according to Eyeteaguy: Nobody should EVER paint anything, EVER, if they can take a photo of it in the first place.
I can just imagine what you think of paint-by-numbers,which is even one more step removed from reality.
February 26, 2010 at 11:21 pm
@ Friar – Throw up a painting of a naked chick and see what Eyetea says. I’m curious.
February 26, 2010 at 11:34 pm
@Karen
Oh, he’d probably still give me shit, and say I coulda done the same thing by downloading it from a porn site.
February 27, 2010 at 1:45 am
Is your bloobehry painting for sale?
February 27, 2010 at 1:12 pm
@Seestor
Umm…not sure yet. Possibly.
Sometimes I like to hold onto my latest paintings for a while, before I decide.
By the way, nice spelling. Did you learn that from the Bluhbery signs at Kaladar?
February 27, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Friar, please feel free to paint a naked chick and post it here.
As long as its your Seestor…..heh heh heh.
Eyenaughtyguy
February 27, 2010 at 3:54 pm
@Eyeteaguy
(*holding my ears*) LAH! LAH! LAH! I can’t hear you. LAH! LAH! LAH!
September 6, 2011 at 9:13 pm
I like the background. RE Just take a photograph. When I went to first, art class, my instructor observed my frustration as I was attempting to capture all the details in the photograph I was painting. He gentle took me by the shoulders and lead me down the hall to the photography class. He related, maybe you do not belong in an art class – I cried inside. He said, if you want your painting to look just like the photo, this is where you belong. Art is not about perfection, it is about imperfection … every “missstep” makes it yours…gives it your signature. I don’t fret much anymore.
September 6, 2011 at 9:27 pm
Geez…that teacher sounds like a tool. There are better ways to motivate students, than to almost make them cry!