I started this a while ago, and finally got it finished. This has been my ‘I’m not in the mood to paint’ or my ‘I’m at work and I’m bored’ piece. I finally finished it up tonight and couldn’t wait to share. I haven’t done much with colored pencils, and it’s a completely different technique for me, but something I love to mess with sometimes. This piece will get framed and hung up in my kitchen with pride.

I’d originally started this piece as an exercise in working a little looser than I usually do. Yeah, it didn’t really happen. I think I’m just unable to not be details, and I rather think I like that. I can appreciate impressionism, I can appreciate loose work, but it’s not something I’m able to do. It feels unfinished to me when I do it. But those that ask me to do a painting for them seem to like the way I do things, and I do too.

Peaches and grapes and fabric in colored pencil.