Going bananas

Posted by Christopher Robin | Sep 21, 2023 | Our Town Arts | 0

Acrylic on Glass by Robin Moore Rohwer

Maybe the oddest painting I’ve done, or you have seen this week. Here I debut “Going Bananas.” Did this come about due to some brain shift, cultural statement or hidden meaning?

No. I’m wired differently as I usually stay just a bit bananas … artistically anyway.

Here is the process for this small piece:

First, I tried squeegee paint techniques with vivid colors by squirting dots and blobs of acrylic paint and then running a squeegee over it. Discard or keep?
Cut to fit an old, glassed frame, time to decide what to add in the foreground.
Due to some color swirls and being hungry or low potassium, decided on the fruit.
The trickiest part of this was painting the banana in reverse on the glass. The top layer of highlights and detail go first, then the shades of yellow to finish.
Sign it in reverse and flip!

Think I’m bananas?

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

~Groucho Marx

Squeegee background

Acrylic reverse on glass

Stack and frame

Photographer Chris and painter Robin Rohwer each week share a painting or photograph that captured their interest in hopes that it will also capture yours. They have a small studio and gallery in the Phoenix Building at 418 South Gay Street where you can stop and see their work. Their website is www.ChristopherRobinArts.com. All works are copyright protected.

About The Author

Christopher Robin

Husband and wife, Chris and Robin Rohwer, collectively under the pseudonym Christopher Robin Chris Rohwer: Photography is one more excuse for me to be outside. Whether traveling the world or in my own back yard, I look to capture interesting subjects with light, lines or action to give the viewer a sense of what I see and feel. Owning a camera dates to my college days but photography only became a serious effort within the last few years. Raised by adventuresome parents, my escapades include hitchhiking through Europe, trekking in Nepal and rafting the Grand Canyon. Adding a camera to my experiences has given me a new perspective of the places we visit. With nearly everything in the world being photographed, my goal is to find another way of seeing things and photographing them differently. Sometimes it works. Professionally my career was in finance with the last 25 years at Home Federal Bank as a commercial banker. Retiring in 2021, I work hard to stay active and on the move. Robin Rohwer: I am always a work in progress. I paint for me. The image speaks to me and needs to be painted. For me, painting is capturing a moment or a feeling in time and place. Preferring to paint on location, in a style known as Plein Air, it is my hope to transport the viewer to my spot, to feel the wind, the smells, and the light that drew me to stop and contemplate painting. Anything may be my subject, no matter how obscure and should convey the energy and mood of the moment. Strong shapes, subtle shifts, light and shadows chorus in my head and my heart to evoke feeling with the viewer - a memory, a love, a need, a calm or a question. When one sees my finished work, it’s a piece of me and a peace in me. I am blessed. Robin and Chris share a small studio and gallery in the Historic Phoenix Building at 418 South Gay Street where we meet the nicest people and share our craft. We have two beautiful daughters and now two wonderful grandsons.

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