22 - Amaryllis and Bananas

Size: 28 x 20

Medium: oil on canvas  Price: $2,500.00

Amaryllis and Bananas was painted the year I had Amaryllis in the garden at Fairbanks Ranch.  All of the flowers came from my garden and I like to organize my shapes and colors of flowers to match the vase. The granite counter is shiny and highly reflective. It created an energetic wet clean feeling in the foreground. I liked the natural lighting that occurred each day in my kitchen where I painted this piece. I like to give the men who see this, a reason to like it as well, so I always give them something to eat. "A way to a man's heart is through the stomach," or so they say. My husband loves bananas and the bananas wrap around the vase and creates a composition that sends your focal point back around in a circular loop at the base of this painting and then around to the cake that also is round and sends your eye back upwards to the Amaryllis. This series of circular loops keep you from exiting the painting and the stopping and  resting spots remain to be the open flower heads.