Beets, Balls

"Beets, Balls"
9" x 12"
Pastel on canvas panel
The "exterior decorators" at the Botanic Gardens have inserted pumpkins and squashes in the beds with the autumn pansies, beets, grasses and mums. They're intimately nestled amongst the tootsies of those plants like shoe clips on plain black pumps.  

It was an unexpected delight to see the small gourds in the raised beds. What a clever and colorful idea to mingle them for the unsuspecting visitor.

Carol

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Five Cousins

"Five Cousins"
9" x 12"
Oil on canvas panel
It looks like Cinderella's used car lot! And to some extent, it is.  These are all "used" pumpkins that were given to me after the pumpkin holiday—all but the long, horizontal one.  It's an Amish cooking pumpkin I bought myself.  It was, however, dark green and orange two months ago.  I'll slice it and bake it soon. 


I stacked these to fit one of the canvas panels I had prepped for just such an
occasion.  I enjoyed using variations of the same colors to define five different entities.

I'm trying something new. You know the drill.  I hate to keep restating it.

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Thank you for stopping by,
Carol