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A bowl with citrus fruit, two oranges, one lemon, and two limes, rendered in charcoal in a classical still life drawing. The third in a seven-day art challenge with the theme of, "in the kitchen." The oranges were bought at the store, but the lemon and limes come from my own trees.

I often joke that I learned to draw and paint because it is easier and quicker for me than getting a good photograph. I do still make the attempt to use my camera more effectively from time to time, but I have more natural aptitude to using a pencil or paint. Often what few photographs I am satisfied with become reference for my artwork. I work with charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic, and am learning oil painting. I tend towards more realistic, although I have dabbled in impressionism when the fancy strikes. I live at the dead end of a dirt road in rural Florida with my husband and a yardful of critters, while the local deer and wild turkeys eat my annual efforts at gardening.