2/25/2020 Day 2

So yesterday I kind of gave my life early report for the day. After that I did my shower, didn't clean and left the house to paint lettuce. Let me explain that--I have noticed that most really great artists went through an entire evolution of skill and style. As someone who let their skill languish for most of the past 25 years, I am very out of practice. This is not to say I don't have any innate skill still because I do, but I am not someone who you'd be able to point out the that was something Deanna did kind of style. I want that style, so it does involve me painting things I am not attached to, which has actually turned out to be food. What I mean by that is who the hell is going to want a painting of my lettuce tacos? How about nobody. But painting lettuce tacos and food I am convinced will give me a different take on painting people or things I want to paint later on. Plus, there's a lot of color in my subjects--not your standard still life but usually reproduced photos from the meal boxes I ...