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A "pretty as a picture" orange fills the frame, with an apple in a bowl in the background. Fruit has been a popular subject for still life paintings for centuries, and has proven just as loved with the advent of photography. I took over a hundred photographs of fruit on my kitchen table, and this is one of only two that are good enough to share as photos. I still intend to paint this, as well.

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.