Tomatoes...

Artist: Janis Zroback
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Tomatoes...

“Tomatoes” is part of the Food Collection, and the Gallery Collection

My neighbour Beatrice grows Tomatoes right here in the city amidst the Dahlias and Hydrangeas in her front garden…somehow they fit the unplanned scheme of the garden, and I love it when she donates some fresh ones for my lunch…the joy of the everyday things in life…

Acrylic on Canvas…

The street
filled with tomatoes,
midday,
summer,
light is
halved
like
a
tomato,
its juice
runs
through the streets.

It enters at lunchtime,
takes
its ease
on countertops,
among glasses,
butter dishes,
blue saltcellars.
It sheds
its own light,
benign majesty..excerpt Pablo Neruda…Ode to a Tomato

Tomatoes... belongs to the following groups:

All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, AW Welcome Center, Bits and Pieces , Colour Me Vibrant Red!, Green!, Happy Haven, Latin-Caribbean Art, Live, Love, Dream, Realist Traditional Art, Safe Haven, The Patchwork , Tropical Art and Vibrant and Vivid Color

Janis Zroback, 3 months ago

4-5 tomatoes
feta cheese or fresh mozzarella cheese
1 small onion
black olives
fresh basil (about 10 leaves)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons balsamico
garlic powder
salt and pepper
Cut tomatoes, feta or mozzarella and onions and prepare it on a dish; first tomatoes, then onions, then the cheese. Lay the basil leaves on top.
Mix the oil and balsamico with some garlic powder (or fresh garlic) and seaon to taste with salt and pepper.
blamo, 3 months ago

the stems look supurb and the green background suits this so well
Janis Zroback in reply to blamo’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you T…I just love to celebrate the everyday things that fill our lives…
zangi12, 3 months ago

yammmiii yammiii
lovely texture.
Janis Zroback in reply to zangi12’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you so much S…glad you like it…
Avril Brand, 3 months ago

Wow… AND I love your recipe!
Janis Zroback in reply to Avril Brand’s comment, 3 months ago

Thanks Avril….
Jim Phillips, 3 months ago

Lovely painting, especially the reflective qualities of the tomatoes. As for me, slice it and put it between two pieces of bread with some mayo. Love it in the summer. Then if I want to get fancy I’ll fix a BLT.
Janis Zroback in reply to Jim Phillips’s comment, 3 months ago

It’s great any ay you make it, especially in a bacon sandwich…glad you like the painting…I often do tomatoes and actually most anything that finds it’s way into my kitchen…you’ll see when I post the one I’m doing right now.
JRobin Whitley, 3 months ago

Okay, I really love your work. Keep it up!! I live with an 86 year old woman who also is an excellent painter. We’ve been trying to get her motivated and she loved your paintings as well.
Janis Zroback in reply to JRobin Whitley’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you Robin…you really should post some of the paintings in her portfolio…thank her for me…glad you both love my work…
Racheli, 3 months ago

Janis, this is so very beautiful, complementary colours are irresistibly…....say no more….....::)))) accurateness shadowing, very nice.
hilarydougill, 3 months ago

beutiful artwork Janis, look good enough to eat, beautifully rendered. hugsxxx
Janis Zroback in reply to Racheli’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you Rachel…glad you like it…
Janis Zroback in reply to hilarydougill’s comment, 3 months ago

They were eaten right afterwards…thank you so much Hilary..
Paul Brady, 3 months ago

Really nice work.
Janis Zroback in reply to Paul Brady’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you Paul…
darkestartist, 3 months ago

great vibrancy in the choice of background. wonderful composition.
Janis Zroback in reply to darkestartist’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you so much…I’m really pleased that you like my work…
Alison Pearce, 3 months ago

Fabulous work!
kjgordon, 3 months ago

bursting with color….Great how you can make the light reflect off of them….
I was going to give a recipe…..but why…..yours seems better than mine….......
and again such prose….........
Janis Zroback in reply to Alison Pearce’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you Alison…
Janis Zroback in reply to kjgordon’s comment, 3 months ago

Give a recipe by all means…I’d love that…thank you KJ…
kjgordon, 3 months ago

Ingredients:
1. salt shaker
1. tomato
1. large mouth
1. napkin
Directions:
sprinkle salt of tomato and take a good bite….
Wipe juice off chin and repeat
Janis Zroback in reply to kjgordon’s comment, 3 months ago

LOL…..I should have known…
Ronald Rockman, 3 months ago

Wonderful image Janis.

I had two large vine grown Tom’s this morning, cooked in hot butter with a large fresh field mushroom drizzled with an aged Balsamic, seasoned with fresh dill, parsley, S and P.
Janis Zroback in reply to Ronald Rockman’s comment, 3 months ago

My neighbour just gave me some more this morning…and I have some mushrooms…I know what’s for lunch today now…thanks Ronald for both the recipe and the compliment to my work…
coppertrees, 3 months ago

Perfect Janis
Janis Zroback in reply to coppertrees’s comment, 3 months ago

Thanks Vickie…
jab03, 3 months ago

lovely work well done :)
Janis Zroback in reply to jab03’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you so much…glad you like it…
Laurie Puglia, 3 months ago

your composition looks very nice :) laurie
Janis Zroback in reply to Laurie Puglia’s comment, 3 months ago

Thank you so much…
Laurie Puglia, 3 months ago

how long does it take you to paint something like this?
Janis Zroback in reply to Laurie Puglia’s comment, 3 months ago

It is a small one, only 8×8 inches….so a week, from concept to drawing and then painting…but I work on several at a time…while layers dry, I can work on other paintings.
Joanne A. Bradley, 2 months ago

Those tomatoes just pop against that superb green! I must try your recipe but I have to say that Kkjgordon’s recipe brings back memories of sitting on the porch steps as a child….
Janis Zroback in reply to Joanne A. Bradley’s comment, 2 months ago

These tomatoes are really popular ones, as the prints have started to sell…my neighbour keeps me well supplied, but I still buy as we love them so much…thanks Joanne.