EDiF2018 - PNW"F" # 01 - FRUIT

Well, I am (once again) starting off one of these everyday challenges LATE, but eager, nonetheless. My personal take on this months list of prompts is going to be "WASHINGTON AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST; BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER "EFF". Since I am starting late I am going to cheat STRAIGHT OFF, by using a sketch from a year or so ago. Because there are no sketcher police. And because I like the sketch, and because I can.

Here is "F #1 - FRUITS from the Pacific Northwest

Every Day in September 2016, #26 - Environments and Habitats - SUBTROPICAL

EDiS – Environments/Habitats - #26 - (for) “Subtropical"
Today's is the last of the prompts for subject matter in tropical biomes - Subtropical. I have chosen to relate all of September's prompts to where I live now, my birth state of Washington. In my mind, things tropical relate heavily to exotic and beautiful fruits and flowers, like mangoes, papayas and orchids. This, then, is a painting of the "beautiful and exotic" fruits and flowers of Washington state - luscious red apples, jewel-tone cherries, juicysweet wine grapes, nectarines, plums, pears, berries. And, nurtured by our temperate weather, "exotic" flowers everywhere -rhododendrons, azaleas, tulips, daffodils, lilies, camellias, and yes, out in the bogs and marshes, even orchids.
And, yep. This was not one of my two hour sketches. I got caught up in this one and it became a full scale painting. A rarity for me.