Prints
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Extravagant Harvest
Three small square botanical paintings prepared with oil paint on canvas
include an open nut in the shell, a peach and lime slice,
titled Extravagant Harvest, Golden Harvest
and Full Harvest
.
Paintings look great on their own or combine to form a triptych.
Extravagant Harvest
Nut in Shell4 x 4". Oil Paint on Canvas
Extravagant Harvest - Artist's Statement
This small painting's prepared with neutral browns and a dark background. A nut in the shell's painted with relatively rough brush strokes. The nut represents God's provision as described in the book of Genesis.
Extravagant Harvest
is part of the triptych titled Every Plant
.
The two other paintings are titled Full Harvest
and Golden Harvest
.
Then God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit
yielding seed; it shall be food for you;'
(Genesis 1:29)
While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.
(Genesis 8:22)