And let’s face it, I say tomato too. If I said ToMAHto, I’d deserve a beat down cause really, no one says TOMAHTO unless you’re a pretentious jerk. Or a Brit and if you’re a Brit of course you get a pass.
Speaking of tomatoes I had some that were about to go into the Husband’s salad and a few clementines that should have already been consumed 3 days ago. I had some scrap paper, one was a piece of Arches 140# hot press and one was a piece of 300# cold press. And I had the urge to try painting without drawing. Add those together and you get a couple of watercolor “salads” shown above. I wasn’t crazy about using either the hot press or the 300 lb paper. It was the first time for me using these papers and I suppose I just have to get used to them.
I’m happy to report that the tomatoes finally went into an avocado and tomato salad. The clementines, on the other hand are still just sitting there looking sad.
Now, can we talk about this new trend using “because” as a preposition? Because stupid.
Carol King: drawing, painting, complaining 
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November 19, 2013 at 7:23 pm
Barry Coombs
You paint tomato, we paint tomatoes. What a coincidence. As you’ll see in my post tomorrow, we’ve been painting tomatoes and cabbages all day. Your work is nice and fresh, by the way, no matter how stale the clementines were.
November 22, 2013 at 10:25 am
Carol King
Barry, you crack me up. I checked out your tomatoes and let me say, I was impressed. One of these days I will make it to wherever you are and take a class. Aren’t you in Toronto? Don’t you have that (in)famous Mayor Ford?
November 19, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Roberta
Carol, you know that, unlike Rob, I always read your blog but never comment, right? This time, I just couldn’t resist.
Back in the dark ages when George and Ira wrote “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”, the sheet music made its way to the British Isles and performers started doing their thing with it. Thing is, the Brits don’t actually say ‘tomahto’ so they didn’t get the joke, never having heard it sung. They used to sing “you like tomayto and I like tomayto”, or so the story goes.
btw, have I ever told you how much I love your work? 😉
November 19, 2013 at 7:39 pm
Roberta
wait a minute, wait a minute – I’m brain dead! Of course they say tomahto, it’s potahto they don’t say. That’s what having two computers and a backup drive all go down in one night does to a girl! 😉
November 22, 2013 at 10:25 am
Carol King
yeah, no one should ever say POTAHTO! LOL! and thank you for your comments.
November 19, 2013 at 8:55 pm
Sharon K.
Oh lovely!! So cheery 🙂
November 22, 2013 at 11:17 am
Carol King
thanks Sharon, They do look cheery, don’t they?
November 23, 2013 at 7:31 am
Sharon K.
🙂
November 19, 2013 at 9:12 pm
elenacaravela
A rather tasty watercolor salad!
November 22, 2013 at 11:18 am
Carol King
the husband got to eat the actual salad though. Thanks for the comment.
November 19, 2013 at 9:42 pm
joantav
I’m sure these made a yummy tasting salad. Nice job on both papers. I’ve never really tried the Arches cold pressed but have painted on the 400 lb paper. I love that it doesn’t curl, but it is too expensive to use unless you have to. lol Fun experiments…just curious, how big were the scrap pieces of paper?
November 24, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Carol King
The scraps were about 7 1/2 ” x 10 1/2 “. I usually always work on Arches cold press paper, not hot. The hot has a strange texture and doesn’t pick up the paint the way I expect it to, but I guess it’s just a different paper to get used to.
November 19, 2013 at 9:47 pm
kk2n777
I like your painting because nice.
Now is it because the paintings are nice?
Or is it because you are nice?
Or even because I am nice?
I don’t get English because Chinese.
November 24, 2013 at 5:38 pm
Carol King
You’re THE BEST. Just because!
November 19, 2013 at 10:36 pm
jimmyboi2
Whenever I hear “You say tomahto… ” I think of and transpose the song “You take the high road, I’ll take the low road.” Because confused. Nice tomatoes and clementines! Did you know Lois’ second husband’s son from his first wife (of three) has a baby daughter named Clementine? Who has an older brother named Dante? Because Yuppies. xoxox
November 24, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Carol King
Hahaha, It took me a moment to figure out the extended family but I finally got it. And yes, because yuppies.
BTW, One should always take the high road. The low road is too crowded.
November 20, 2013 at 12:20 am
lesliepaints
I am totally enjoying these paintings without drawing, Carol. Wow! I also like your experimenting with different papers. I was bouncing back and forth between the two paintings trying to figure out which was hotpress and which was 300lb paper. Is the first one on the green support the 300lb paper?…the second on the blue the hotpress? …or the other way around?
Anyway, I like both. They are colorful! Looks like someone ate a Clementine before you finished. 🙂
November 24, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Carol King
Of course you are correct about the papers Leslie. Because smart. Haha, you counted the clementines. I’m going to have to talk to the Husband about eating my still like before I’m done with it.
November 20, 2013 at 3:37 am
http://www.nicsearth.com/
I like both your toMAHto paintings and it wasa good use of those poor clementines even if they never get eaten because at least now they will have served a purpose anyway. As for this because thing, this was the first I heard of it to be honest but I blame Twitter and it’s 140 characters. People have clearly taken to dropping words to make their drivel fit. Eg. Because (I’m) clever or because (of) laziness! Trying to make it a new form of grammar -the ‘because – noun’ is just because a$sholes!
November 24, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Carol King
I blame Twitter for everything. because downfall of human civilization as we know it. Oh wait. That wasn’t exactly the right usage. because confused.
November 20, 2013 at 7:41 am
Nuno
Nice color combinations. The complementary colors help to focus on the tomatoes and clementines.
Looking forward to seeing the “you say potato” version.
November 24, 2013 at 5:42 pm
Carol King
I usually don’t have potatoes in my apt because diet! Maybe I’ll do a sweet potato version. Thanks for the inspiration.
November 20, 2013 at 11:06 am
Patricia Oetken
Well, I say Tomahto so I must be pretentious 😃 I don’t really, but I do have a funny audition story to tell you next time I see you if I remember it by then!
November 24, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Carol King
I’ll remind you about the story and I would hit you if you ever said Tomahto in front of me.
November 20, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Irina
I like the idea of tomatoes speeding your art into a salad. Paint me asap or I’ll die.
Nothing to say here about spelling at all, I am afraid my fluent English is quickly turning into speechless way of writing short comments.
And I love Arches paper, usually I spray it with water 15-20 minutes before the show starts, this way paper becomes more manageable .
November 24, 2013 at 5:44 pm
Carol King
I’ve heard of soaking the paper, but never spraying it about 15 minutes before using it. I will have to give that a try. Thanks for the comment.
November 21, 2013 at 11:48 am
hw (hallie) farber
I like these tomato paintings; especially the top one with stems. Here in the south, we eat a lot of juicy “mater” sandwiches–usually while standing over the sink.
Thanks for the link to Atlantic–one of my favorites. I was not familiar with new use of because (because don’t text or twitter).
November 24, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Carol King
Hi Hallie, we used to eat tomato sandwiches on white bread with mayo. Loved them! I liked the tomatoes with the stem but someone took them for his salad (the husband) and I had to use other tomatoes for the 2nd painting.
November 21, 2013 at 6:45 pm
cathy
Green and red yum. Getting free is a good thing.
November 24, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Carol King
Green and red usually means Christmas to me. Getting free IS a good thing.
November 23, 2013 at 5:16 am
padmaja
Love these water color salads 🙂 The linear arrangement with complimentary colors look very attractive Carol, look forward to more!
November 26, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Linda Halcomb
It is so much fun to just paint with no plan and no outline. Very challenging but very relaxing if you can let go and “just do it” with no expectations.