Today's painting is a still life with some Mexican pottery my birth mother gave me after one of her trips to San Miguel. She was an artist as well and loved the Mexican people. She would take many trips there to get inspiration for her art. I met her for the first time 10 years ago and she passed away in March of '08. I wanted to include something of her's in a still life and I have to say that pottery was fun to paint. I'm not sure I love the rest of the set up but I plan to use the pottery again in other still life settings. I am still experimenting with thick paint and big brushstrokes. It's the very opposite of how I am used to painting but Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". I don't want to go insane so I'm trying something different no matter how painful.
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