From my, Garden to Easel series: These are Lively Italian Sweet Peppers from my summer 2021 garden. Excellent models, they don't move! The stars in the night sky are pepper seeds from the actual peppers that "posed" for this painting. Seeds of nature shining across the cosmos. 

GARDEN TO EASEL 3: ARTIST-GROWN LIVELY ITALIAN PEPPERS
• Acrylic painting on 36" x 24"
 Birch Wood Cradled Panel.
• Lively Italian Sweet Pepper seeds embedded into the painting. 
• Signed lower right.
• Third painting in the Garden to Easel series.