Fruity

I suppose this is still going with my traditional run I seem to have kept up the past few SSS's.

A fruit still life, with a little wooden shark.



We had to draw fruit for one of my more dull drawing courses. Most people chose apples, pears, and oranges. Boring fruit, boring boring boring. I decided to take on a challenge and pick up a prickly pear, starfruit, and uhm...wooden shark. I'm sure he'd be quite tasty.

The experience has taught me that drawing starfruit is a pain, and that a single bright clamp-lamp placed next to your fruit for days on end will rot it terribly. Thus making any hope of munching said subject futile.

My friend's apples all had one round section that was nicely cooked at the end of day 1. Perfect for use in a pie or other baked good. I, smartly, had been transporting my fruit in a little plastic baggy hidden away inside my satchel and stored in a fridge when home. That didn't help preserve them at all. I became desperate and started freezing my fruit.

One day I opened up my bag to find a plastic baggy of green ooze. The prickly pear popped and gooed all over my wrinkly little starfruit. Luckily by this point I was close to finishing anyway so I could discard the fruit.

In conclusion, to edit the popular W.C. Field's saying, "Artists should never work with children, animals, and exotic fruit".