an artful interlude....

ok, so.....i turned the television back on for some background noise, and wandered off in search of a book i need to pass along this evening....and all the sudden i heard the voice of an artist i know (and i know only 2....) explaining the featured still life as a riot of color.....and i sat down to listen to him track the progression of his work from outdoors to photographs of outdoors to all indoors from materials brought inside.....he was working on a melon, and the camera close-up showed the moisture clinging to the melon...wow.....later on in the program (KET, naturally) he discussed a small painting by cezanne as anything but small....and went into great detail about how the apples and the plate were deliberate and intricately shaded..it takes an artist to be able to understand thr work of other artists, i suppose....and to discuss must be just as difficult as to paint...and to have such talent...the l.o. must be so very proud of her papa....