Tomatoes...
“Tomatoes” is part of the Food Collection, and the Gallery Collection
My neighbour Beatrice grows Tomatoes right here in the city amidst the Dahlias and Hydrangeas in her front garden…somehow they fit the unplanned scheme of the garden, and I love it when she donates some fresh ones for my lunch…the joy of the everyday things in life…
Acrylic on Canvas…
The street
filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is
halved
like
a
tomato,
its juice
runs
through the streets.
It enters at lunchtime,
takes
its ease
on countertops,
among glasses,
butter dishes,
blue saltcellars.
It sheds
its own light,
benign majesty..excerpt Pablo Neruda…Ode to a Tomato
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Janis Zroback
4-5 tomatoes
feta cheese or fresh mozzarella cheese
1 small onion
black olives
fresh basil (about 10 leaves)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamico
garlic powder
salt and pepper
Cut tomatoes, feta or mozzarella and onions and prepare it on a dish; first tomatoes, then onions, then the cheese. Lay the basil leaves on top.
Mix the oil and balsamico with some garlic powder (or fresh garlic) and seaon to taste with salt and pepper.
blamo
the stems look supurb and the green background suits this so well
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you T…I just love to celebrate the everyday things that fill our lives…
zangi12
yammmiii yammiii
lovely texture.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much S…glad you like it…
Avril Brand
Wow… AND I love your recipe!
Janis Zroback replied
Thanks Avril….
Jim Phillips
Lovely painting, especially the reflective qualities of the tomatoes. As for me, slice it and put it between two pieces of bread with some mayo. Love it in the summer. Then if I want to get fancy I’ll fix a BLT.
Janis Zroback replied
It’s great any ay you make it, especially in a bacon sandwich…glad you like the painting…I often do tomatoes and actually most anything that finds it’s way into my kitchen…you’ll see when I post the one I’m doing right now.
JRobin Whitley
Okay, I really love your work. Keep it up!! I live with an 86 year old woman who also is an excellent painter. We’ve been trying to get her motivated and she loved your paintings as well.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Robin…you really should post some of the paintings in her portfolio…thank her for me…glad you both love my work…
Racheli
Janis, this is so very beautiful, complementary colours are irresistibly…....say no more….....::)))) accurateness shadowing, very nice.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Rachel…glad you like it…
hilarydougill
beutiful artwork Janis, look good enough to eat, beautifully rendered. hugsxxx
Janis Zroback replied
They were eaten right afterwards…thank you so much Hilary..
pbradyart
Really nice work.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Paul…
darkestartist
great vibrancy in the choice of background. wonderful composition.
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much…I’m really pleased that you like my work…
Alison Pearce
Fabulous work!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you Alison…
kjgordon
bursting with color….Great how you can make the light reflect off of them….
I was going to give a recipe…..but why…..yours seems better than mine….......
and again such prose….........
Janis Zroback replied
Give a recipe by all means…I’d love that…thank you KJ…
kjgordon
Ingredients:
1. salt shaker
1. tomato
1. large mouth
1. napkin
Directions:
sprinkle salt of tomato and take a good bite….
Wipe juice off chin and repeat
Janis Zroback replied
LOL…..I should have known…
Ronald Rockman
Wonderful image Janis.
I had two large vine grown Tom’s this morning, cooked in hot butter with a large fresh field mushroom drizzled with an aged Balsamic, seasoned with fresh dill, parsley, S and P.
Janis Zroback replied
My neighbour just gave me some more this morning…and I have some mushrooms…I know what’s for lunch today now…thanks Ronald for both the recipe and the compliment to my work…
coppertrees
Perfect Janis
Janis Zroback replied
Thanks Vickie…
jab03
lovely work well done :)
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much…glad you like it…
Laurie Puglia
your composition looks very nice :) laurie
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much…
Laurie Puglia
how long does it take you to paint something like this?
Janis Zroback replied
It is a small one, only 8×8 inches….so a week, from concept to drawing and then painting…but I work on several at a time…while layers dry, I can work on other paintings.
Joanne Bradley
Those tomatoes just pop against that superb green! I must try your recipe but I have to say that Kkjgordon’s recipe brings back memories of sitting on the porch steps as a child….
Janis Zroback replied
These tomatoes are really popular ones, as the prints have started to sell…my neighbour keeps me well supplied, but I still buy as we love them so much…thanks Joanne.
Shannon Donovan
Fantastic work Janis!!
Janis Zroback replied
Wonderful news Shannon…thank you so much…
nicholphoto
Janis Zroback replied
How wonderful Bradley!!...thank you so much…
Lynne M Kirby...
Scrummy artwork!
Janis Zroback replied
Thank you so much Lynn…
Teresa Zieba
Congratulations!!!
Janis Zroback replied
Fantastic news Teresa…thank you so much.. :))
FlowersEtc
I love the wonderful details in this.
Vickie Emms
Hi Janis, I’ve used this beautiful photo as the avatar in Berries, Fruits & Seeds for a couple of weeks, if that’s OK. If not, please let me know and I’ll choose another.
Janis Zroback replied
It’s a painting…did you need a photo? it’s perfectly fine with me…thank you so much…
Vickie Emms
no, no Janis, I call all art photos, so sorry, the painting fits perfectly with my tomato theme this week. I know it’s a painting, and it’s lovely as is all your art and thank you for the use
Janis Zroback replied
You’re very welcome…