THREE ORIGINAL PAINTING ACEOS ON CANVAS

There Aceos are available for sale on eBay. They are all done with acrylic paint on aceo sized gallery wrapped canvases.





Zen Landscape Aceo








Retro Pear Aceo








Still life lemons

For anyone who doesn't know how small ACEO cards are here is one scanned next to a splenda packet!

Satisfyingly Lemony Deux

I got some insightful suggestions from wetcanvas.com about the lemons yesterday and I worked some more on the lemons this morning.

Tried to play with the light on the lemons, especially the back one. I wanted to make the shading on the whole lemon a bit more graduated but it didn't work out quite like I'd planned.

I changed the background a bit too. It's vague but more solid across the bottom, more varied and light across the top.... and I changed the color of the shadows in general.

I'm happier with this verison. I'll keep working with it!

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THE SNEAKY CHEF - A book review

The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine is about making delicious food better. There are other books that do it, but the The Sneaky Chef does it best.

My family's eating habits were just a schoochie-bit above fast food tastes. Feeding them anything with a whiff of health was near impossible... There was an extreamly long list of "unacceptable" food in my house. It got to the point that when anyone asked what was for dinner it was easier to say, "We are having, Gross, I'm not eating that!"

I bought the book out of deparation but it's worked out great. The recipes REALLY are easy and delicious. And of the ones I tried no one (NO ONE!) knows I'm thowing beans and veggies in their precious meals... It's a big hit with me.