Old Copper Teapot

Another still life from Mary Muller's studio. At times, this was a very amusing painting to work on because my still life kept changing. My lessons at the studio were only once a week, and usually when someone was working on a still life, everyone knew not to bother the arrangement. There were usually a dozen or more still life arrangements scattered about the studio with notes on them reading "Do not move! Still being painted!" The only problem with this one was that tomatoes don't keep so well from week to week, so every week I had a new set of tomatoes on the still life after the last ones had rotted away. Sometimes the new tomatoes were drastically different from the ones I'd half-finished painting the week before.

Oil on Canvas, 16"x20", 1999