Delicious ..Scone with Berries and Cream

Thank you so much Izzybeth…we have them very often…

LOL… I’m really pleased that you like the series so far… I decided that if I did not get started on my main collection right away it would soon be summer and the garden would be calling me… winter is when I do most of my painting, and so far a signature collection of food painting was lagging behind… I’m so pleased that I finally started… thank you so much for your support…

I guess that means that you like it… thank you so much Aaron…. I am so happy that you’re stopping by to comment…

How nice Bev! I guess you’ll just have to start baking…I am finished for the day, both baking and painting… thank you so much… I’m really pleased that you like it…

Welcome Martin…thank you so much…I’m glad you like it…

I am so sorry…no I’m not at all..LOL…I’m a food painter Solomon…it’s par for the course…I make people hungry…..I’m so glad you like the series..thank you so much for all your lovely comments….

As a food painter, it’s what I want to hear…:)) that and the word “sold”...I’m so glad you love the series Linda…thanks you so much for all the wonderful comments…

Oh I am so sorry…. :)) so glad you like the painting…thank you so much…

Welcome Carol….I am delighted that you came by to view my work…thank you so much…

Everyone has been saying that to me…I don’t want to be a cause of obesity… :))
I started to paint food a few years ago, then branched out into other subject matter, but in my heart and soul I am a food painter…a part of the long history that Bendiner so eloquently describes…for the past two winters I have done a major food series and created websites to support them…this is the one for 2009, so I’m afraid you will just have to tighten your belt Jim. :)))
I really appreciate all your great comments on the series….it has a different audience from my other paintings…I’m so pleased you are one of them….

Thank you for staying with me Jim…I really appreciate it…maybe I am painting it for just for you… :)))

Thank you so much Karin…. :))

Welcome Sylvia…I’m so glad you like this work…thank you so much for commenting…

I am so pleased you like it Pauline…thank you so much for your lovely comment..

In the first painting in this new series of the Blueberry Tart, I wrote about Thiebaud’s food paintings, and what they meant to him and to his culture…I added a little thumbnail of his painting of cakes…
When I realized a few years ago, that painting food was my main interest, it was Cezanne who had the most influence on me…I knew little about contemporary food painters except for Warhol…since then I have been researching it a lot and Bendiner’s book is the most comprehensive study of the genre….I am thrilled to be part of this long history of wonderful food painters…
For the past two winters, I have done a major collection of food paintings, each collection very different from the last, with a special website and two blogs to display them…it gives me great joy to start another collection this year and I’m so glad you love it…thanks so much Amy…

It is my favourite too…you will love the Bendiner book…I am so pleased to have found another partisan…thanks again Amy…look for new work from me in this series…I am hoping to add new paintings amost everyday…there are some collectors of my original work who are waiting in the wings for more of these… :))

What a lovely thing to say Amy…your comments have made my day…thanks you so much.

You will have to get your wife to make you some…that is unless you are the cook in the family… :))
I’m glad you’re still with me and this new series…a true partisan…thank you so much KJ…

Well there you go….you are blessed all round…I trained myself to cook since I was a little girl, and my husband says he would rather eat my cooking than at any of the greatest restaurants…is that to get out of going out for dinner think you?

I was joking about how he feels actually…he knows I like to get out of the kitchen as often as I can…so we go out…the city has very stringent rules and many health inspectors, so we’re pretty safe..

Thank you so much George…glad you like the series…

Once in a while here, they close a restaurant temporarily for some sort of violation, but no matter what it is, the place never recovers….they always shut down for good..people just don’t want to go back…

Thanks so much Bev….I added a cinnamon bun today too…then ate it afterward…it was good… :))

Welcome and thank you so much….

Welcome and thank you so much for stopping by to comment on my work…I really appreciate it…

I’m so glad you like it…welcome and thank you so much for the compliment on my work..

Oh Lois… I am so thrilled to to see that you love this series…. I put my heart and soul into my food painting…. I feel that this is what I was meant to do… I love it so much, and you absolutely made my day when I read your words… every year I do a collection of food paintings… I have clients who wait for this, and this year the portraits like this one will be a hit…
I know that many people here on RB love my landscapes and abstracts, I hope they will come to love these too…
Thank you so much for your beautiful comment…. I will treasure it… come by again… you are really good for me…

I have not previously done anything for cafés or restaurants…. this is the first time that I’m doing specific food portraits like this… every year I try to do a main series of food paintings and this year I decided to do them the same way you do a portrait of a person… I like to celebrate food… it is part of everyone’s experience and I don’t think we should take it for granted… so these portraits are a celebration of food in all its glory…
I will be painting lots of things with chocolate… watch this page from now on…
I’m so thrilled that you like them… it really gives me the encouragement I need to keep posting them to Red Bubble…

Well you’re right in the heart of cream tea country, so it would be really easy…no baking involved…I’m so happy you like the painting…thank you so much Mike…

Welcome Karen…thank you so much…I’m glad you like the painting…

Food painting is my thing…. although I do paint in many other styles and subject matter, the genre of food painting is my main interest… this year the series will consist of portraits like the one above…. these paintings appeal to our basic human needs at the same time as our human desires….
I am so pleased that you love them…. there are many more to come so do stop again…. thank you so much.

Thank you so much Alan… nice to see you… I’m so glad you like the painting…

What a lovely thing to say Lois…. your words resonate with me… as I go back to painting the next portrait this afternoon, I will think of all the wonderful encouraging things that you have said, and will no longer wonder whether my food paintings will have an audience on RedBubble….

Thank you so much Alison…

I think everyone who is used to a meal at tea time has commented that they love the scone best… I’m so pleased that you like it to… thanks so much Susan…

As always you hit the nail on the head Joanne…. there aren’t many poems written about food that are really good, and that I want to reproduce here and these days I have no time to write any myself. However when I found this one, I thought it would be perfect… it is all about sharing… mealtimes are ritual times and they’re always best if someone is there to share it with you… growing up, my family all sat together at meal times… the only time we weren’t altogether was during the day at school, but every other meal was taken together with no exception… Tea time was special… it was a time of the day when we shared with our mother what went on at school… a father wasn’t home yet he would be there for dinner, so teatime was just far mother on ourselves… she always had it waiting, teapot under the tea cozy and something good to eat.
In Toronto there are quite a number of places that serve tea. Many hotels to as well as restaurants and there is some restaurants that devote themselves to that special time in the afternoon when women want a break from shopping and they will serve scones and tea at that time…. but according to my husband the best tea is served right here at home…. :)))
Thank you so much Joanne for your great insight…

I totally agree… thanks again Joanne..

Thank you so much Kaz…. nice to see you again….

Welcome Tama…thanks so much for placing me on your watchlist…I am so glad you came by to view and to comment on my work….

Thank you so much Margaret…I’m glad you like them… :))

Welcome Cathy…it is always nice to see a new face…I’m so pleased you like my work…thanks you so much…
The text formatting help below every text box shows how to copy an image to add to the page..it’s really easy…

O.K. I guess that means you’re now hooked…. :)) I do a major food series every year…last year they were fruit…this year it’s cooked food for the most part so far…though I did add some cherries that got featured on the Rb most popular art page…thank you so much for all your lovely comments…

Lois the bringer of great news…I again did not know and I can’t even find the challenge on my page….thanks so much Lois…it’s wonderful news…I will look again…

Thank so much Lois…I finally found it by going to the group page…I just posted it in my journal….I am so pleased…what does it say about what tempts us the most? ...giggle…

It certainly would tempt those of us over a certain age….:)))

Thank you so much Rebecca…welcome and thank you for adding me to your watchlist…

Then I hope you are not on a diet….. :)))

Thank you so much for your lovely comment Mary….