And she feeds you tea and oranges...

Isn't this a lovely watercolor?  Cherries, clementines, and blue and white china.  And such elegantly understated whites, such bursts of luscious color.    It's by Stephanie Anderson; I found her looking for nice still lifes for my iPad jigsaw.

Anderson reminds me of the Italian Baroque watercolorist, Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670).  She painted odd, brilliant still lifes, all eccentric compositions, mostly of greengrocery, often with a pecking bird, or butterfly, or beetle.




Clearly she loved creatures, slithery and spiky:  there are grasshoppers, snails, and lizards.  Of course I adore her hedgehog, all in feuillemort.


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