More of my favorite theme- all kinds of different people sitting around a table with interesting things to eat. You'll notice this green table and chairs in lots of my paintings. It's been our dining table for years, and I really love it. I think it's a kind of funny story about the table's history- let's see if I can explain this... It was given to Bill and me by our friends, Kathy and Bill C., and when they gave it to us, he said, "This really should have been yours! So now it finally will be." I was confused, so this was his explaination: It had originally belonged to Bill C. and his ex-wife, Marianne. Before Bill C. was with Marianne, it had belonged to Marianne's boyfriend, Rob, who later became my first husband. Is that clear?
When we got the table, the finish was a very beat up and blochy natural brown wood, not our favorite look, but I really loved the form, the crazy balls and grooves and all. First I painted the top, in tealy tones, faux "marble". I really liked it, but couldn't think of what to paint the legs and chairs, so I just made them a flat peach colour, the same as our walls. Even though I didn't really love it that way, it stayed that way for quite a few years. Finally, sometime in the 90's, I painted the legs and the chairs a beautiful green, that we still love, even though they are a bit beat up now. I don't even mind that they're a little beat up.
10"x 14" Watercolour/Gouache/Ink $145. (+ Tax & shipping)
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