Summer Harvest, 9053, original still life of summer vegetables

This is the latest challenge for Karin Jurick's Different Strokes from Different Folks blog. The subject this time is this colorful plate of summer vegetables. I tried to emphasize the light/shadow and keep a painterly approach. For purchase information, please see my website.

Minnesota in summer

I got back from my reunion in MN. What a great time we had! Being used to semi-arid Colorado, you forget what rain and humidity do to the environment: GREEN. Here's a couple pictures I took that may end up as paintings. The grass was up to the cows' bellies and the corn was well on it's way to being "knee-high by the fourth of July".