025 “Mushrooms” Acrylic on MDF, 5″ x 7″

Sometimes the simplest food is the best food. I met chef Pierre in Burgundy in 2002, and even though he didn’t speak English and I didn’t speak French, he nevertheless invited me to stay and watch as he prepared lunch in a tiny barge galley. One dish was mushrooms. After washing them, he sliced them and added triple cream, mustard, fresh lime juice, tarragon, and a bit of salt and pepper. Delicious with the Saumon et croute (salmon baked in a rock salt crust).

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022 “Pulpit Rock Crabapple” Acrylic on MDF, 4″ x 4″

Homemade crabapple jelly. Yes, the spoon is bent—it’s quite old. Antique. And someone made an effort to straighten it in years gone by. A neighbor asked permission to pick the crabapples from our tree and, in return, we received a couple of jars of tasty jelly each year.

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020 “Mousing Around” Acrylic on MDF, 4″ x 4″

Times change quickly. We’re seeing a lot of “old” computer stuff out there that’s no longer made or used (unless you’re a collector). These two mice were in a box in my basement, but there was a time when I put a lot of miles on them. (Yes, that’s an early Alfa Data mouse on the left.)

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019 “Rubber Cement” Acrylic, 7″ x 5″

I’ve been a commercial artist for decades, and one of the things I truly love about the profession is the tools of the trade. Compasses, rulers, t-squares, triangles, ruling pens, X-acto knives, paints and brushes, rubber cement, and many others, are fondly remembered. All those tools have disappeared from the designer’s profession, replaced by advanced technology. But they really were beautiful tools, and they had to be mastered.

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018 “Pumpkin” Acrylic, 7″ x 5″

For some reason, it’s easy to love a pumpkin. Jack-o-lanterns? Not so easy, perhaps. But who could resist this little guy with such a flamboyant stem?  How that stem ended up surviving all the way from farm to grocery store is no doubt a sweet story that I’ll never know. I can only guess that no one along the way had the heart to chop it off.

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