Thursday, August 9, 2012

peachy




I've been trying to draw a peach to use as a pattern and visual aid for the model of the peach inlay. I've been looking at photos of peaches on-line and in books but I can't find the perfect peach from the perfect angle to match the image I have in my mind.

I've been to the grocery store several times, coming home with bags of peaches, each of them delicious and yet none still matched my image. I am dissatisfied with them all as a model for the pattern.

Obviously, not just any ordinary peach will do no matter how tasty it is. I guess I have in mind a more universal peach, the symbol of peach, in which case it's unlikely that I will find the specimen in real life.

But since I detest the artificial perfection that has seized our culture when it comes to ideals of beauty, I will probably use a real peach to look at after I have already formed the basic shape in wax, to add some lumps and dips and bulges, to try to bring it back to real life somewhat.

I'd better hurry as peaches are passing out of season, soon to be replaced by produce from Chili and I can't bring myself to buy produce from Chili. From halfway around the world. That's just wrong.





12 comments:

  1. We all need lumps and bumps...especially peaches...good luck

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  2. Wish I could help. Look up the old Peaches Records crates.

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  3. Peaches are perfect. Maybe it's the fuzz you're missing. I wish I could send you a perfect Astabula peach. The ones grown by the lake shore in Astabula, Ohio.

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  4. oh, the perfectionist artist. :)

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  5. I have been looking at a few in the last two weeks eating them fresh from a tree. Isn't there a little point oon the bottom?A good friend used to always start his classes with an apple and show how many colors with pencil he made it with.

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  6. Isn't it funny how our IDEA of something comes to look more like that object, at least in our minds, than the way it looks in reality? Strange.

    (I suppose that same tendency is behind sex objectification -- our IDEA of what men and women should look like, vs. what they really do!)

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  7. I hear you about produce from outside US. It is wrong!!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  8. Yes, pictures from old crates were idealized. I do like your idea of a real peach, with imperfections and all.

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  9. I have no opinion about how it should look - I just want to EAT one now :)

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  10. I agree about buying food grown in Chili.

    I love your explorations into the soul of the peach. Very cool!

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  11. Strange, I can't imagine that you shouldn't be able to find a genuine peach that won't do for your idea. Real peaches do have lumps and bumps, don't they?

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  12. What a delicious way to research your art.

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