Color and apples

[Timothy C. Tyler]

By the way Enzie, you need not be so careful or generous - it's fine really to speak openly. I don't mind. I did, as you suggest, do this on purpose. This is for two main reasons: 1. If you actually juggle (and you can try this at home) you do not and cannot look at any one apple. You simply look at them all in a blur - see them all at once and out of the corners of your eyes. Focus on one and they will fall. Secondly and more importantly, I wanted to create tension and a contradiction between the very relaxed casual look of the boy and the stress one would expect from the chore of attending to the apples. Making him look stressed or overly attentive would be rather less captivating, methinks.

As a third and minor point, I wanted to paint something akin to or feeling vaguely like, an old religous painting in feel and environment yet with an ironic, unexpected twist to it.