Visual Art Gifts

Strawberries are probably the most pleasing fruit that is easy to eat.  The other sweet fruit either have a hard outside to cut away like the pineapple, or they have large seeds in the middle like the peach or cherry.  My favorite strawberries are those fresh from a garden, but I don’t mind buying them in the market or tianguis and sorting through those which are too green or too ripe to find those that are soft and sweet leaving juice running down to my wrist.

This first strawberry artworks was from a few quick photos I took of a strawberry before I ate what remained of  half a kilo of strawberries I had bought at the tiangus on Tuesday.  After washing and sorting them, I had a large bowl which I had with a glass of white wine yesterday (Wednesday) so you see food I love disappears fast!

Strawberry 1 by Christopher Johnson

I tried in this artwork to show the pleasure and sensation I had when enjoying those strawberries including that particular strawberry I photographed.  The intense red contrasting with the shiny textured white of the background. The green leaves with highlights were also tempting.   Does it make you want to see the large preview?

The Autumn Delight Kaleidoscope art series was inspired by one of the photos I used for my holiday themed posters and cards in my holiday greetings store at Zazzle and as posters at Imagekind. This series has a soft painterly texture and canvas feel. You can’t really tell with the small preview, but if you click through and click again on an image at Imagekind, a large preview will open and that will give you a good idea.

Autumn Delight Kaleidoscope Art 5 by Christopher Johnson
This one is my favorite artwork of the series.