Do you Pinterest?
I'm not addicted, but I look around every so often. You never know what tip you might come across!
One of my favorite Pinterest posts was for "lime cubes." I bought a bag of limes at Sam's (so you know it was a huge bag 'cause everything from Sam's comes in huge quantities). These limes were gorgeous so I took a bunch of pictures of them. ("Splash of Lime" was the first painting to come from this bag.) Next, I cut them and squeezed all the juice into ice trays. Now, when I want a little lime flavor, I just add a lime cube! Thanks Pinterest!
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What did you have in mind?
This is not what I had in mind... I bought a bag of limes, and when I dumped them into a bowl, I thought they were gorgeous. I set up some for still life references and took a bunch of photographs. One was just a few slices on my cutting board... scatter of circles I decided to do first.
Once finished it was flat, the stripes of the cutting board that you could see made no sense. So, I decided a nice light cool blue would make the limes pop; it looked like some giant lime balloons floating through the sky. I almost never paint with blue, and I had a blob of it on my palette that had been just sitting there for a while. It seemed like a good choice. Nope... nothing; I added some white in one corner and some dark blue in the other. At that point, the limes popped, but it made no sense at all.
Then...
I picked it up by the darker "side" so show it to my husband. Odd, I didn't paint it vertically, but it made me smile... Ok, so weird, but imagined the sugar-plum dream from The Nutcracker and the line "while visions of sugar-limes danced in their heads" from Twas the Night Before Christmas. Hmmmm....interesting... I took it by the lighter "side" and thought of Jimmy Buffet looking for his lost shaker of salt... kind of dreamy, made my mouth water for something sour. Who knew... I love it!
Wonder how it all started? Yeah, it came a long way...
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What do you know about limes?
I can honestly say, I don't think I ever even tasted a lime until a few years ago. I knew they were a green citrus fruit. I knew from high school history class that sailors used to eat limes to keep from getting scurvy. And, I knew that Sonic made a great limeade.
So, how did I go 40+ years without the flavor of lime!
I happen to believe that I make the best nachos... in the world... (Maybe that's because I make the best salsa. Of course, I'm glad to share. Just click Salsa Recipe.) But recently, the best just got better when I discovered limes! Hold that perfect chip with cheese, meat, onion, tomato, and salsa in one hand, and hold a half lime above it. One little squeeze... hmmm... Perfect-er!!
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