Red Onion

6" x 6" oil on gessoed masonite panel

This red onion was painted with a friend, artist Cherie Nobilette. At first the onion sat on a plain but sunny cloth; yet, something was not working for us and set up was looking more and more still-life miserable. We noticed a gaily striped, festive dish cloth laying on the kitchen counter; and whipped it under the onion and the difference was amazing. The serious deep red stripes of the skin shaping the onion's sphere and the crazy waving stripes of the cloth undulating beneath it...well, I loved it.

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