"Watching Blood Pressure" - April 15, 2019


"Watching Blood Pressure"
Acrylic 

In "Watching Blood Pressure", my main goal was to combine the cartoon world and the painting world. With a passion for comic strips and illustration, I wanted to find a way to incorporate my cartoons unto the canvas. The idea for this painting came from a memory of my grandmother telling me how my great-grandmother could no longer use salt on her watermelon due to high blood pressure. I personally like watermelon plain, but I always think about salt when I have the sweet fruit during any time in the summer. 



I still tried for a realistic look to this cartoon with values in faces and clothing and the use of perspective in the kitchen cabinets. Still, I had fun with the faces, making some noses and ears bigger than what we normally see. There was a lot of freedom in this painting, both in style and in color. This painting takes me back to visits to my great-grandmother's home and how things used to be in a simple kitchen. 

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