Studio Time...

...and a sketchbook pomegranate study.

Actually, these dried pomegranates were snipped from a

bush right outside the studio...

and included a small bulbous grey spider

which crawled out

of the pod painted in the lower right corner.

I am NOT a fan of spiders..

so he was "wisked" from the scene immediately!

I went with

paint straight in...no pencil...and added some ink flourishes

as decorative highlights.
(Click on image to enlarge)

Another day in artistic paradise?

Ahh...You betcha! :)

"Paradise is seldom recognized as such

until

it is considered from the outside.”

~Hermann Hesse