water with tomatoes 8x10

orbiter 7x5

A student found these two very different tomatoes joined by a stem and put them in my line-up.
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two tomatoes 6x6

A coworker brought these by for me to paint yesterday (thanks Jeff!). I was already doing the sardines so I did the tomatoes today. They're just normal tomatoes from the school garden but they had these lovely yellow markings. They sort of look tie dyed. This is my 400th painting.
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tomato jar #2 6x6

The straight forward arrangement that I typically use to present the objects in my paintings has often made me think about laboratory specimens. Putting this lone tomato in a sealed jar heightens that impression. I like it. It makes the tomato seem very important, maybe even dangerous.
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