"Giant Olive Trio"

Olives are one of my favorite types of foods that I love to eat as well snack, and that is why I painted this painting called "Giant Olive Trio".  There were some photography "shoots" for a various amount of olives that I placed them in a small rectangular dish.  For as the numbers are concerned,  I love to paint in the number in either three or seven.  However, I decided to use the number of three in this particular painting by placing these jumbo Spanish olives onto this  antique olive pic and lay them down in this small rectangular dish.  

Oh by the way, there was a dish that I had not eaten in years which contains olives, that is Tomato Aspic which is one of my most favorite side dishes.  This particular dish not only contatined olives, but included Knox gelatin mix, vegetable juice cocktail, pecans, and not to forget a small dash of Tobasco sauce while it was cooked on the hot stove.  Upon its cooking completion on the stove along with some some cooling, the liquid aspic was then poured into a Jello ring for molding and congeling, and then it was placed in the refrigeraton.  About two hours later, the congeled aspic was both flipped and placed onto a platter which the cottage cheese was then later placed in the inner part of the ring. Yum!  However, I lost that recipe and hope to find another one like that soon.

Another place is where I can find some very fancy olves is at many of the Harris Teeter grocery stores that have a delicattesan.   There is this particular grocery store chain that is located in mainly around the Charlotte, NC area and throughout the most of North Carolina region. It is a very rare occasion that I would buy olives from the "Olive Bar" at this particular store is that they are soo expensive by costing at least $7.50 per pound on a normal basis except for some times when there are some special sales and discounts.  There are at least twelve varieties of these special types of olives which I still would love to try, but I will need to wait until another sale comes on so I can buy them.  Now, you can see why I really love olives.

* Painting's Title: "Giant Olive Trio"

* Media: Mixed Media with Watercolor on Gessoed Masonry Board

* Size: 6" W X 4 1/4" H X 1/8" T

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Sweet Pumpkin Gallery: Color Of The Year Challenge - 2010

Sweet Pumpkin Gallery: Color Of The Year Challenge - 2010: Here is my painting of this challenge called "Color Of The Year - 2012".  The color is called "Tangerine Tango" which is a very popular col...

As I was reflecting over this particular challenge being "The Color Of the Year Challenge" which involved a color called "Tangerine Tango" which I submitted a painting of a bright tangerine-colored poppy.   It is rather incidental that this was also the year of the Dragon.in the Chinese zodiac which made me to realize if any of these were in anyway related to each other.  This year was highly impacting as well highy dramatic - especially in the area of the Presidential races along with debates and all of the fanfare of the London Olympics. Many of these things went and stilll going on and on that it can be soo unrelenting.

 It is very hard to believe that 2012 is almost over.  I wonder what the color that will be chosen for the year
of 2013.   The Chinese zodiac has shows that it will be the year of the "snake".  "Hiss!"   Well anyway it will be very interesting to see what the new year will hold.